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

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

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 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.

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

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

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.