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"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."
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"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."
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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
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"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."
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"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."
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"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."
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"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
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"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans."
Fans
"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."
People
"I try and write honestly about what I see around me now."
Now
"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
Punk
"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."
Punk
"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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"There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them."
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"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
Time
"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."
America
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