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

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

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.

If we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won't just say 'I never said that' or just ignore it and go on to the next thing.

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

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.