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- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
- Hippy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hippy movement was a failure.
- Complete
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- Nov 07, 2020
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Eight
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
- Nov 07, 2020
The future is unwritten.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig - that's survival technique. Afterwards, you run around town to find interesting hipsters and go to all the interesting spots. You got to go to every hotspot until everything has closed down.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020