Don't write slogans, write truths.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

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

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... 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. ... 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. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.

The future is unwritten.

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.