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I'm always up for a riot, but now and again, you've gotta put your feet up and enjoy the sunset.

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.

Each man kills the things he loves. I recognise that in myself - in relationships, even with guitars - beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and walked off, but I am sure it was him.

It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.

Spitalfields - I often find myself milling around there. I always go down Spitalfields whenever I can.

I never went to school in England until I was 12.

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you've got 40,000 men in trilbies. That's paradise, man.

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.

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

It's never going to be hipster because you've got that smell that the sea gives out twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is art-led regeneration.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm going to have to leave the country, stay in the E.U., and probably change my citizenship.

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit.

I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.

My family used to say, point-blank, 'We'd support you if we thought you could sing, or we thought you could write songs, but you can't.'

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.

Money wasn't important to me. Once I discovered music, I was quite happy to live as a bum. As long as I had my music and my band, I was happy.

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

I feel a lot better when I've got a bit of cash on me.

I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.

I love life. I squeeze everything I can out of the day.

There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y'know what I mean?

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

I could be anywhere. I just need my space to work.

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

I'm not really a fighter, but I've never backed down from anyone in Paris. I feel I can't. In London, I'll just run because I'm not going to fight 50 Wolverhampton Wanderers fans.

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.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

I was always very softly spoken and kinda looked after myself.

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