Joe Strummer: Going

“We got all the influences for it [Global a Go-Go] from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.”

Joe Strummer

About Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros' album Global a Go-Go (2001) and about the song writing process.
Strummer talks war and music (13 November 2001)

Music , Hell , Country

“I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.”

Joe Strummer

Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

Truth , Thinking , Holiday

“I'd like to say that people people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world. People are running about following their little tracks. I am one of them. But we've all gotta stop just stop following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything; this is something that I'm beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other; it's because they've been dehumanized. It's time to take that humanity back into the centre of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed… it ain't going anywhere! They should have that on a big billboard across Times Square. Think on that. Without people you're nothing.”

Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007).

People , World , Thinking , Learning

“It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.”

Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare into he Hearts of All Things Corporate (2002)

“I think that the corporation is running it and will always make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.”

Joe Strummer

About mainstream radio.
Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare into he Hearts of All Things Corporate (2002)

Thinking , Forgetting

“What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!”

Joe Strummer

Interview with Howard Petruziello for the New York Hangover on March 2000 Petruziello, Howard, Drinking with Joe Strummer, New York Hangover, 2000, March http://www.nyhangover.com/issues/0300/text/Strummer300.htm,

Beer , Singing

“I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.”

Joe Strummer

7 Questions with Joe Strummer (15 August 2001)

Feeling , Hell

“I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that.”

Joe Strummer

The whole thing baffles me.
My Dinner with Strummer (March 1999)

Hate , Parent

“I think you have to grow up and realise that we're facing religious fanatics who would kill everyone in the world who doesn't do what they say. The more time you give them the more bombs they'll get. Bin Laden is going to try and kill more people. It helps the fanatics.”

Joe Strummer

Strummer talks war and music (13 November 2001)

People , World , Thinking , Time