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

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

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.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the goodness of the majority of people to be a socialist. You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don't believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you're never going to have that sensibility.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.