Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

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.

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