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.

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.

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.

For love, we live For love, we dieFor love, we dream and get ready to be lied

BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.

I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

I have terrible PMS. I just went a little crazy.

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.