Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

A happy wife is a happy life.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

Being real is what is important.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

Any reaction is better than none.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.