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.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.