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

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" 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. "

" A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation. "

" Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! "

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

" 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. "

" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "

" 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. "

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

" I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "

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

" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "

" 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. "

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

" My words are my bullets. "

" If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away. "

" Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process. "

" I love America. I love Americans. "

" When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. "

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

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

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

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