The worst insult in the English punks' vocabulary is "poser." These are working-class kids who resent it when the middle classes ape their style.

"Legs, you asshole," I said. "I am not doing this story on you. I am not taking the responsibility for making you famous."

“I haven’t been this excited about rock and roll in at least 10 years. First it was isolated artists, then a vanguard, but now it looks like a movement.”