Joe Strummer

“People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.”

“All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.”

“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 phra...”

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

“The hippy movement was a failure.”

“You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.”

“We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.”

“We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.”

“If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.”

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

“The future is unwritten.”