I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.