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I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

I am not political as a person.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.