I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.