I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.
Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she looked at me and said, 'Is that it? Is that all you've got?'
In a way, I'm always working with Mick Jones. I feel like he's watching over me all the time. We talk about everything: history quite a lot. Balloons and wars and old football players. The Clash.
I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.
I knew I had I a better album than 'Up the Bracket' in me, and I wanted to record it. But I was told we've got to keep touring, keep promoting. That was the first time I realised we were on a conveyor belt.
He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.
I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.
Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.
'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.
Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.
For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.
You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.
I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn't walk down the street. London becomes a very small village, eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable.
Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.
I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.
I hate seeing myself misquoted.
The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.
Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.
It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.
At school, I was always the new boy, so I always went in for the school play. It was a way of breaking the ice and making friends with pupils and teachers for however long I had before moving on.
