The future is unwritten.
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that’s much tougher than beating someone up. That’s what I call tough.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn’t.
We’re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.
It is fun to be alive. It’s a hell of a lot better than being dead.
If they can’t hear it, they’re not supposed to hear it. It’s not for them if they can’t understand it.
The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.
Greed, it ain’t going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you’re nothing.
I don’t want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
If I had five million pounds I’d start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn’t make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.
All the power’s in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.
Strummer’s Law: No input, no output.
When you’re out to get the honey you don’t go killing all the bees.
With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t learn nothing, cause hey, it’s not your fault, it’s his fault, over there.
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.