I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.
You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.
I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.
I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.
Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.
There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
Nobody sensible voted for Thatcher. For me, in political terms, the most admirable person and the most influential would have been the philosophy of Gandhi. The ideology of passive resistance worked and can work again and again. It is the exact opposite of violence. A glorious conception.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
Books are like my one and only joy.
Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.
It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
Pop music I have always loved best.
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
