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, he's a bit like Mussolini. I think that ultimately Trump will lose the election and in the process destroy the Republican party - but then I'm an optimist, ha ha ha! So he might not lose. He might be in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!

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

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

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

I don't mind being labeled as a political songwriter. I've chosen to do that. What really annoys me is being dismissed as a political songwriter. That really pains me, because life isn't all about love; it's not all about politics, either. It's a beautiful mixture of events that absolutely baffle you, and you think, "Why can't I do something about that?", whether those events are in your bedroom, or out there in the wide world. In our daily lives we engage with them at different times, and I'm trying to write about the whole human experience, or my perspective on it anyway.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.