I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.
I don't feel old or young, I just am
Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.
Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young...
I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.
I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.
You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'
I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.
I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.
Being a musician is a noble profession.
My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered through America or whatever - African-American. But I still think there's something in that roots music that's very, very African, and I think that's what unites people.
I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.
An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.
Today, we're even into the whole sweat thing. They'll wear a [suit] jacket like this, but they'll wear it with sweat pants and sneakers. But I do think there is every generation - and it won't be as big as it was when you and I were those ages - but every generation all of a sudden experiences that they want to dress up.
