As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.