There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.
Shane MacGowanCram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.
Shane MacGowanWrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.
Shane MacGowanThe most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.
Shane MacGowan