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

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.

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!

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

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

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

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