A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

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.

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.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

Ignorance is the darkest depths.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.