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

Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.

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

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

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.