I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s having observed some distortions up close but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

If you want to know about my politics the only way to do that is to look at my work.

I hate politics. I like to write about it but to get involved in it to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq or any type of war.

Yeah exactly you can talk about politics in music you can talk about something else but that's always going to change and love is never going to change.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Well for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'