I don’t think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized – it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.

It’s true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves – motifs of rebellion.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.