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" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "

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" I've always despised the hippies. "

" I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile. "

" If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what. "

" The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. "

" Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that. "

" I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form. "

" Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process. "

" I love a bit of flag-waving. "

" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "

" Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. "

" I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way. "

" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "

" I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep. "

" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "

" It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist. "

" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "

" I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. "

" Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. "

" You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. "

" I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. "

" I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. "

" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "

" The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. "

" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "

" If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away. "

" I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. "

" Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "

" Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. "

" These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad. "

" You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. "