So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

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.

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

If one is fooled by magic, then isn't the magic as good as real?

When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.

Love may not expect love in return but lovers do.

Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.