I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

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.

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

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.