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.

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

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!

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

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

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