I feel displaced when I’m back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don’t get a cup of tea I’m going to lose my mind.
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It’s like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I’m a feminist. That suits me fine.
Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don’t have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
Don’t get a job in an abattoir. Don’t be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal’s head off for a living.
I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
I don’t believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it’s killing you! That would be negotiable.
I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
A ballad once in a while doesn’t go amiss.
There are no real men.
You try to be arrogant in songs because you can’t be in real life.
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
How much did you get for your soul?
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That’s the bottom line.
There’sthemeat eaters and there’sus. And that’stheway I look at the world.
I don’t think it’s good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn’t make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn’t work.
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.