You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

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

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.

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 relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.

At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.