A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets..

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations..

I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of pr….

Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea.

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

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country..

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth cultur….

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands..

Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. ….

We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worr….

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ide….

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now..

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians..

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step ….

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 t….

If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves and involve ourselves w….

Baptists burn more slowly..

Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That's how a Donald Trump can get through. He has no ideology at all: in that sense, ….

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth..

Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn't be, because you hav….

If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they're much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they're about rel….