“I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.”

Just because you’re gay, I won’t turn you away. If you stick around, I’m sure we can find some common ground.

Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

All the things about ‘the ugly American’ that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it’s all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society.

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I’ve some news for you, we’re here to defend wealth.

If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

I’m celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn’t mean that you are not held accountable.

You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.