I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.

(Talking about Britain's school education) They take your soul away. They take your brains away. They don't let you have an opinion that's different from theirs. You've got to think what they tell you to think. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married. And by the time you're about 29 you got two kids, and you just wanna commit suicide.

Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.

(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.

At the time we should have been tightest, we could'nt have been looser.

Volatile. Fully prepared to defend myself. (when asked how would he describe himself)

Every time I see Bono in those big fly glasses and tight leather pants I just can't hack it. I can't see that as solving the world's problems. He's crushing his testicles in tight trousers for world peace.

You'll get one number and one number only, 'cause I'm a lazy bastard!

On Sid Vicious: "I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.