To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.