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"The Sex Pistols were extremely important to me and William, and still are. One of the things they did really well in the TV series Pistol was show the positive impact their example had on people.
Johnny's become a bit of a dick in real life, to be honest. He's no longer the guy that we thought he was back in the day - smart, articulate, saying everything we wanted to say about how much we despised the life that had been earmarked for us. Now he's become more of a caricature of himself, like Morrissey - he seems to say utterly hateful things just to amuse himself—but then he was everything we wanted to be."