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

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

The future is unwritten.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

I wonder if you know how special you are

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

Have some more tea, dear, " Hester said, reaching for the pot and refilling my cup. "I always find that helps.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

The bigger the show, the weirder it is.

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.

When only a little can be done, doing it becomes the greatest you can do.