A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

Observable Fact: I don’t believe in magic.Observable Fact: We are magic.

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.