I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on and do what it is I do. That's where I learned the love and respect for music.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.