A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

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.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

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 proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.

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.

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