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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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"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."
"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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"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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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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"That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really."
"It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me."
"I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now."
"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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