It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

Don't give pain to others.

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

Pop music should be about young people.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?