- Joe Strummer: If someone had in and gone, "Let's play this with balalaikas," everyone would have gone, "Give me the biggest balalaika," you know?
- Joe Strummer: Whatever a group is it was the chemical mixture of those four people that makes a group work. That's a lesson everyone should learn, "Don't mess with it!" If it works just let it... Do whatever you have to do to bring it forward but don't mess with it. And like, we learned that... bitterly.
- Joe Strummer: [about Art School] They weren't teaching us to draw an object, they were teaching us to make a drawing to make it look like we knew how to draw the object.