Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

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.

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.

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

Playing goal is like being shot at.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.