Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.