I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Money's Too Tight to Mention' was about as big an anti-Thatcherite message as you can get in pop music. There was a vast swath of the British media at that time that were rabid Thatcherites; do you think they are going to take kindly to me? Then I got hit by the left, because we were too popular.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.