Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.