From Friday's NYT

Each of the four contributes to this story, but time and again, it is Joe Strummer’s voice, his dramatic sense of language, that leaps off the page. He says of one song inspired by a line of movie dialogue that “it was like holding one end of a piece of string which had a song attached to it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/Light-t.html?ref=music