All in good fun though.
Right. I'm a trendy vegetarian and I think we have to be aware of what we shove in our bodies. We only get one chance at life, there's no born-again nonsense gonna happen. We've got to make the most of what we've got while we're here.
I'm guessing your audience includes peers and curious kids, wondering what the Damned is all about.
Yeah, it's very strange. You're supposed to hate the music your parents liked and parents are supposed to be outraged by what the kids are listening to, but I think punk was so ahead of the game in 1977 — kind of quite extreme — we're now in fashion. The Dead Kennedys, Ramones, and dare I say the Damned still sound fucking brilliant. Punk is still saying something and it's still relevant and the great thing is anyone can do it — learn three chords and form a band.
What accounts for your eternal joie de vivre?
I never saw the point in po-faced rock stars, people who think they're special and everyone should run around and treat them like gods. At the end of the day, if you can play a guitar it doesn't make you special in the slightest. You don't go around groveling to the plumber when you see he's done a good job. I never saw the point of some of my contemporaries — you never see a photograph of them smiling. They're so serious. What's that all about? I just never got it. It doesn't mean I don't take life and politics and the way things are going incredibly serious. These are very dangerous times we're living in.
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