107 Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

If I'd have known how much fun fatherhood would be, I would have started way earlier than 45.

I've been kept from honest employment for a long, long time now. Thank God!

The only casual item I own is a Levi's jacket.

My look was based on the Madison Avenue guy who's just lost his job. Ivy League suit a bit scuzzed up, an outgrown layer cut and five o'clock shadow.

I've always lived all over the place, and left Manchester the minute I was old enough to steal a car.

I got to play The Vortex in London with the Buzzcocks, the Fall, me and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers. That was a serious Manchester night.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

Being unapologetic means never having to say you're sorry.