When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination. — 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?… — 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
