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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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"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 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."
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"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."
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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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"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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"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
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"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."
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"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
Class
"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
"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
Business
"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."
Politics
"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."
Nature
"I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return."
War
"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."
Love
"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."
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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."
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