Harry Whitewolf’s Reviews > Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs > Status Update

"I never thought there would be any money at the end of the Sex Pistols court battle. There wasn't much to speak of in the end result, but taking it out of Malcom's hands was good enough for me."

"British pop culture is now much more into the public mainstream forefront. They don't care about war in the Middle East. That's nothing to do with them. Samantha Fox wins every time over the Middle East. This is the nature of the British. They are very trivia-orientated, gossipy villagers. The English press are like those horrible old women peeping behind the lace curtains."

"I was utterly appalled when I heard the damned urn with Sid's ashen remains was dropped and smashed to the floor at Heathrow Airport. It was common gossip at the time of Sid's death. Classic Sid mythology. Sid was such a hopeless failure at everything, it was so typical. Such a horrible way to end - just blowing around the air-conditioning at Heathrow is kind of funny."

"The whole point was to get off your arse and do it yourself. If you weren't doing it, then you weren't no good only because you're damned lazy."

"When I got back to London after the American tour, Vivienne Westwood had sprayed on her shopfront: "John Fucks the Pope." That was supposed to offend me. Silly cow. She couldn't have got it more wrong. It amused me no end, silly bitch."

"(The album had) a really horrible, ugly, cheesy cover with absolutely no consideration about it. There was no great master plan, it was just the simplest and ugliest thing we could come up with on a bored afternoon. No genius. However, now, of course, it's become the punk Venus de Milo."

"The McCartneys wanted to make records with me. I could see that if I fell into that, then I would become Johnny Showbiz... One day I was driving past Harrods in a cab. Paul McCartney and his family came out, saw me, then ran after the car. I locked the door so they couldn't jump in. The driver turned round and said, 'Jesus, I've seen it all now. I remember when people used to chase him. Now he's chasing you.'"

"I cannot understand why anyone would want to put out a movie like Sid and Nancy and not bother to speak to me; Alex Cox, the director, didn't. He used as his point of reference - of all people on this earth - Joe Strummer! The guttural singer from The Clash? What the fuck did he know about Sid and Nancy? That's probably all he could find, which is scraping the bottom of the barrel."

"There was a lot of Viv(ienne Westwood) selling stuff that she took from everything and everyone, particularly me. I was angry about that. I would put things together, and she'd have it in the fucking shop a couple of weeks later - mass produced. There wouldn't be the slightest blinking or guilt about it."