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

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

Baptists burn more slowly.