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

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.

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.

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

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

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 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.