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" If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them. "

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

" I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. "

" You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things. "

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

" I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party. "

" 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. "

" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "

" We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. "

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

" I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. "

" 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. "

" Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas. "

" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "

" I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "

" Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. "

" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "

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

" If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. "

" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "

" Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here! "

" All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. "

" If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. "

" There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. "

" The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort. "

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

" My words are my bullets. "