I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

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

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without anyone trying to kill us. I know it's tough for some people, but generally we live in a caring society. We live in a great country, but we're no longer a great power. Part of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.

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.