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.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.

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.

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

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

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.