The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.