My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.