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" When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things. "

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" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "

" I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form. "

" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "

" I love America. I love Americans. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "

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

" I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. "

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

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

" These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad. "

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

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

" I love a bit of flag-waving. "

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

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

" Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. "

" I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear. "

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

" If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. "

" 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. "

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

" My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good. "

" Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it. "

" I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. "

" 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. "

" 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. "