'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice.

Now, thats a pie!

It's hard to know where to stand when you are surrounded by stupidity.

I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.