Reposted by Nick J. Brown
"The boy in the picture would be thrilled to know he was making a living while not actually having to have a job. That was always my ambition: remunerative idleness. Idleness where people pay you for the results of your idle hours. So I got what I wanted."
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John Cooper Clarke looks back: ‘Getting older sucks – it’s marginally better than being dead’
The punk poet on his heroin years, dressing like Ronnie Wood, and achieving his boyhood ambition