The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.