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"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."
"The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today."
"I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history."
"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."
"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."
"Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else."
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