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I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.

I'm a radical, and I always have been.