It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

I never intended to start a new organisation but to share what I knew.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.