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.

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

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!

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.