[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.

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.

Prayer, divine act.Pray always.

Jesus take the wheelTake it from my handsCause I can't do this on my ownI'm letting goSo give me one more chanceSave me from this road I'm onJesus take the wheel

I feel really good in the teacher role.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.