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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."

"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."

"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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"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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"They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening."

"I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches."

"Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent."

"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."

"Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it."

"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."

"The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones."

"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
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