Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

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.

Having a job is being busy

Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.

I once caught a bid, I never hit skid, Never date a girl if the girl got a kid. Nahhh...papa's got a brand new bag And I never hit skinz once they sag.

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take your money to double.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.