Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea

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.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

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.

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.

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

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.