Joe Strummer
I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.Collection: Growing Up
To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.Collection: Ifs
If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.Collection: Men
We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!Collection: Trying
I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.Collection: Acting
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... 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. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.Collection: Song
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.Collection: Done
everybody has a story to tellCollection: Stories
I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.Collection: Worry
Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.Collection: Buying
I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.Collection: Hate
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.Collection: Book
You've gotta be slightly stupid.Collection: Stupid
What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.Collection: Confused
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.Collection: Robots
There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.Collection: Techno
A lot of people... use a calculator!Collection: People
I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock'n'roll for a second that I'm on holiday.Collection: Holiday
If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.Collection: Mistake