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

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" 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. "

" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "

" Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on. "

" You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then. "

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

" I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. "

" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "

" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "

" One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army. "

" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. "

" My words are my bullets. "

" Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. "

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

" I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. "

" I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out. "

" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "

" If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker. "

" I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "

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

" Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. "

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" I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit. "