I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann

He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.

Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

Tough times go away, tough people do not.