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'Nothing ever stands out. You have to look for anything you might like. Clearly you have given up looking...I think you're a defeatist and you are destined not to enjoy music. If you wait for other people to thrust music under your nose, you'll be listening to nothing but crap for a long while, because that's what gets thrust at us. Music is not a spectator sport.'

I have a fear of nuclear power
But the explosions are very pretty

we sell out in tiny ways every single day, in our own small misguided ways we contribute to the continuation of a state of affairs that we find abhorent...

Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants
artists nowadays is to be in an ad —
ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car.

You told me you cry at Snow Patrol
I said I did too and we just left it at that.

People are so convinced we can't have peace that it's a joke now. Nobody believes in peace. It's a nice idea. It's meaningless. It's never going to happen. And we live in this hellhole, and we think it's got to be this way. But what if we're wrong?

We want punks in the palace
Because punks have the loveliest dreams

IShare

Consume or be consumed says the television.
Consume or be consumed say the conglomerates.
Consume say the Government, and we can quietly
sign away the earth. Consume!

Be consumed, we say, but go out fighting.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions,
they don't have to worry about answers.

By anointing ourselves with the right to exact
vengeance we infect ourselves with the very
virus of criminality, the loss of compassion

Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no-one thinks of changing himself

Sign up to Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advert for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends. We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships.

Our schools look like prisons
And our prisons look like malls
And downtown's just a sick parade
Where no-one cares at all

Against fascism, yes. But also against any type of dictatorship because, whoever exercises it, dictatorship is also fascism.