Justice & Law Quote by Johnny Thunders

Thunders delivers this like a road story you’re supposed to laugh at, which is exactly why it lands with such a sickening thud. The casual arithmetic of ages (15 and 18) is the first tell: he names the numbers, then immediately slides past them into tour logistics, as if the real problem is scheduling, not consent. That’s a classic musician-on-the-run posture: the genre of the anecdote is “we were wild,” but the content is “a minor was involved and authorities intervened.”

The intent reads less like confession than reputation management. “I sent her home” is a strategic clause, a self-cast as the responsible one, the guy who did the right thing once things got messy. It’s damage control framed as gallantry. Then he spikes the ending with cops at the airport, turning accountability into slapstick pursuit. The police aren’t there because something serious may have happened; in his telling, they’re just an obstacle, part of the touring circus.

Context matters: Thunders, a key figure in the New York Dolls and the broader punk mythology, came out of a scene that romanticized transgression as authenticity. The quote shows how that mythology protects men by converting exploitation into legend. “Carried on the tour” is the real thesis: the machine keeps moving, even when someone young gets chewed up by it. The subtext isn’t merely that rules were broken; it’s that breaking them was culturally incentivized, then packaged as a war story for later retelling.