- On drugs: "I don't want to be a junkie for the rest of my life. I don't want to be a junkie at all."
- I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.
- On what EMI thought the Sex Pistols were: "We weren't the nice boys they thought we were. And, we weren't nice boys, we were fuckin' nasty little bastards... and we still are.
- On John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten: "John's just jealous because I'm the brains of the group. I've written all the songs, even from the beginning when I wasn't in the group."
- When there are no more categorizations; when there are no more "niggers", when there are no more "whites", when there's just "people", you know, when there's no more "punks" when there's no more "dirt", that is when everything is gonna be OK.
- [Talking about joining the Sex Pistols] I was getting my own group together, "The Flowers of Romance", and John (Lydon) said to me - there was this big hoo-haa, and Malcolm was saying "it's all a big secret man, you know. Come down to this pub at such-and-such", and I thought they were gonna do me over cos I didn't turn up to one of Rotten's parties or something - he gets touchy over things like that, and they said "do you wanna play bass for The Sex Pistols?"
- [towards the end of the Sex Pistols career] "In the end I was the only one with any anarchy left in me."
- [answer to a reporter asking "where would you want to be?", pursuant his trial for his girlfriend Nancy's murder] Under the ground.
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