I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.