With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah? And the last couple of….

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it..

Petitions are ridiculous..

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired fr….

I'm not going to waste my time trying 'break' America, you know what I mean? Too many people have died trying to break America. America doesn't break….

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer..

The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his….

I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail agains….

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything..

All I can do is go by the words of Christ, who was the only talker we had, for f - 's sake. Buddha didn't speak. The Holy Ghost didn't speak. But I t….

The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, ….

My mother was a champion Irish dancer and singer and most of my family were musical, particularly in Irish dancing. Music is all about spewing out yo….

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?.

You can’t hate people unless you love them..

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself..

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination..

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now..

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result..

I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost..

I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age ….

There have been many happy days and many unhappy ones in my life, but the most important was the day I met my missus, who is sometimes estranged and ….