“I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.”

—  Sid Vicious

Daily Mirror, June 11, 1977, as reported in Fred Vermorel, Judy Vermorel, Sex Pistols: The Inside Story (1987), p. 169.

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