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" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "

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" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much. "

" You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry! "

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

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

" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "

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

" I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space. "

" I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. "

" 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 went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am. "

" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable. "

" Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. "

" It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards. "

" I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. "

" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "

" I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. "

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

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

" Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. "