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" The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s. "

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" It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not. "

" We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic. "

" As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home. "

" For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity. "

" I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his. "

" Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America. "

" The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself. "

" I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think. "

" Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house. "

" As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there. "

" Any reaction is better than none. "

" I love seeing the fans of the music that I make. "

" I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us. "

" Being real is what is important. "

" When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. "

" I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess. "

" Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. "

" I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience. "

" A happy wife is a happy life. "

" Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting. "

" I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money. "

" The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich. "

" I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in. "