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" I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. "

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" If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. "

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" I've never said I'm a communist. "

" I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though. "

" When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use. "

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" I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being. "

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" Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. "

" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "

" I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear. "

" I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw. "

" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "

" I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. "

" 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. "

" I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests. "

" Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself. "

" I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! "

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" I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.' "

" I love a bit of flag-waving. "

" I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. "

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