If You Thought The Army Was Here

Never Trust Anyone Who Has No Doubts. And I'm Not Talking About Scepticism Either: Scepticism Can Be A Healthy Thing. You Can Have An Argument With Someone Who's A Sceptic. When I Say 'cynic', I Mean Someone Who Has Given Up, And They Want You To Give Up Too, So It Makes Them Feel Better About Themselves.

I Enjoyed So Much Working With The Guys From Wilco, And Riffing Off Of Them, And Having Someone Come Up To Me With Ideas, Because Normally In The Studio It's Me Who Has To Come Up With All The Ideas.

Were It Not For The Clash, Punk Would Have Been Just A Sneer, A Safety Pin And A Pair Of Bondage Trousers.

We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Defame Other People's Religion. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Try To Blow Up Our Citizens. We Have Due Process. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who We Capture During Combat And War, But Somehow Guantanamo Bay Seems To Be Outside All That. And Perhaps It's Being Maintained With The View To What People Are Talking About Now, This Idea Of The "long War," That This Is Going To Go On And On, And Perhaps Iran Is Going To Be Next.

If You Can't See That The Glass Is Half Full, You Can Never Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe In The Goodness Of The Majority Of People To Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe That If The Majority Of People Had Their Way, They Would Make A Society That Would Be Fair For Everyone. If You Don't Believe That, And If You Think That The Glass Is Always Half Empty, Then You're Never Going To Have That Sensibility.