You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I resent that kind of extremism of any kind. Left wing, right wing. Anyway at all. Anything that judges other people so harshly and across the board stupidity-wise. I got no time for that.
If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.
I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose to what I do, thats why people accuse me of being calculated. it's the way I am. I always know my next move. I could never conjure up a death wish, this is all I have is life. I don't know what comes next, and frankly I'm in no rush to find out. I don't believe in playing a martyr just for the sheer hell of it. And for something as chidish as Rock 'N' Roll is not on.
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don’t take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That’s permanent. That’s true love.
I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.
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 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 applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
I've never said I'm a communist.
I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.
