Joe Strummer

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is.