Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

- Ian Dury

Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

- Ian Dury

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

- Ian Dury

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

- Ian Dury

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

- Ian Dury

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

- Ian Dury

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

- Ian Dury

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.

- Ian Dury

I'm not here to be remembered, I'm here to be alive.

- Ian Dury