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• Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
  • liner notes to Searching For the Young Soul Rebels (1980)

• The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.
  • lyric to "There There My Dear" (1980)

• I went to an art exhibition recently, and the guy had a quote of mine from that song there — "The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things." I wouldn't agree with shooting people at all. I was just anti-love. I feel differently now. But, you know. It's OK. That's how it was then, and it's good.
  • Tangents 2001 interview

• I had someone come up to me at "Top Of The Pops" and say they thought our records were excellent. "Yeah," I replied. "I think yours are fucking shit." It was awful really.
  • Tangents 2001 interview