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.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

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.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

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.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.