Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

I would say Tony Blair is very much a lapdog. I'm terribly scared that when he finally goes - and we can only hope it's soon - that he will be remembered for all these terrible things that he's done. Which is kind of a scary thing for a Labor Prime Minister.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.