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Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from 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 nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.
Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.
I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!
Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.