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

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

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.

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.

At least when it comes to light pollution what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.