I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Best wishes for your personal well-being as well as for the prosperous future of the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.

The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable.

My focus is on governance. Country has been at greatest loss because governments were run only for elections. Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people.