We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

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

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

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.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Baptists burn more slowly.

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.