You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.