Joe Strummer

everybody has a story to tell

— Joe Strummer

Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.

— Joe Strummer

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the…

— Joe Strummer

I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me…

— Joe Strummer

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

— Joe Strummer

I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let…

— Joe Strummer

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

— Joe Strummer

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2…

— Joe Strummer

“As the floods of God Wash away sin city They say it was written In the page of the Lord But I…

— Joe Strummer

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

— Joe Strummer

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing…

— Joe Strummer

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

— Joe Strummer

A lot of people... use a calculator!

— Joe Strummer

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

— Joe Strummer

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

— Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now.…

— Joe Strummer

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English,…

— Joe Strummer

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

— Joe Strummer

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

— Joe Strummer

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not…

— Joe Strummer

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to…

— Joe Strummer

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

— Joe Strummer

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

— Joe Strummer

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

— Joe Strummer

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

— Joe Strummer