“It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful ...” — John Cooper Clarke Quote

“It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.”

“If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.”

“Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.”

“We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.”

“One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.”

“It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.”