I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.

We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody

It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.

If you keep wandering in the dark streets, may be it is because you find peace in the darkness rather than in the light!

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture the additional act.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.