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

You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

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.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.