I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.