If you don’t like The Ramones, you don’t like rock ‘n’roll. They’re like The Beach Boys without the sea. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
Lyrics became important for a while in the late Seventies. Patti Smith was a poet and a rock star, as much one as the other, the distinctions were a bit blurred and then you get swept up in it. Punk poet, it’s a good enough term. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
I’ve always lived all over the place, and left Manchester the minute I was old enough to steal a car. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet – it’s crippling, as if somebody’s trying to tie your foot in a reef knot. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
All the best musicians started out in church; Jesus invented rock ‘n’ roll. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
I love being on my bike, but I don’t consider that a sport: it’s too pleasant. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote