Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

My clients are the whales and the seals.

People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.

The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.

I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'

I'm thankful to have time to write.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.

I don't care if I put people off.

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

The sealing industry is dying.

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.

The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.

'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them - which you could never do because, by the time you'd saved up enough to buy the item, they'd moved on to something else. That's the whole Mod thing, I suppose.