"everyone in the planet knows malcolm's full of shit. he's convinced people now that he's full of shit, by all the shit that he says, it gets worse and worse!"~steve jones
"because we can't say what we *want*, you fool!"~sid vicious
"there. i've pontificated."~john lydon
"when you talk like an asshole, and look like an asshole, you're an asshole!"~john lydon
"american audiences are just the same as any other audiences. except a bit more boring."~sid vicious
"you'll get one number and one number only, 'cause i'm a lazy bastard!"~johnny rotten
"i got the name vicious because i'm gangly and thin and my fucking girlfriend beat me at arm wrestling."~sid vicious
"the el paradise strip club in soho was a shady scene--fat, ugly chicks stripping."~steve jones
"john loves verbal rapport, plays on words, the odd put-down. he thrives on those things because he's so good with words."~paul cook
"yeah, the guy fucking tried to climb up onstage and fucking attack me. so i smashed his fucking brains in with my guitar."~sid vicious
"i got done in for gbh (grievous bodily harm) because i attacked two policemen's fists with my face several times."~john lydon
"i remember once paul beat john up on denmark street. we'd been out drinking, and john had been going off on paul. john, paul and i were drunk, and we went upstairs. john just wouldn't shut up, and paul couldn't take it anymore so he started pounding him. john was helpless, and i had to get paul off him because he was beating him up pretty bad. still, there wasn't much physical violence; it was mainly all talk."~steve jones
"it seemed like everything in america--especially the food--was too much and too big. i couldn't finish anything. that's america to this day. ...you have too much. triple-decker hamburgers. god almighty! feed an army."~john lydon
"the birds were better looking in america. they knew how to suck dick, i really enjoyed that part of it. they learn at an early age there."~steve jones
"wherever the fancy takes me, i will plunk my big fat ass."~john lydon
"ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"~johnny rotten
"it had become like a cartoon-strip band. rather than a real rock'n'roll band that actually plays, and does something for real."~glen matlock
"i kinda regret him leaving, you know, because sid couldn't play a fucking note."~steve jones
"since we never had our own stage monitors, we had to rely on others for their equipment, and if they bugger you about, that's the end for you. ...when it came to the actual gig, somehow all the monitors were turned off. i call that industrial sabotage or a major mistake, and didn't take kindly to it. that's when things started to go sadly wrong for eddie and the hot rods. i put a mike stand through one of their monitors."~john lydon
