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The future is unwritten.
everybody has a story to tell
You've gotta be slightly stupid.
The hippy movement was a failure.
Don't write slogans, write truths.
Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
A lot of people... use a calculator!
We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.
There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.
I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees
It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.
A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.
If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.
You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'
Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.
To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.