Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Being real is what is important.
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.