I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.
What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.
I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.
The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn't no punk.