I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life,… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah? And the… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
“For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawl About a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball ” — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know? — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age,… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
