In answer to your question Matt!

I don't draw a line and neither should you. Its dumb and uncreative. Only fools do it.

The first song Ewan MacColl published of mine was a calypso in Jamaican patois. I wrote a calypso because Bob Marley was writing reggae, and he was telling the kids I taught 'smoke de herb' - which was okay for a millionaire rockstar in Jamaica , but it left my kids vulnerable to the social workers in the West Mids police force.

I still have the letter from Peggy Seeger asking if I was black or brown. I am white.

I remember Ian Campbell coming round my place after he'd done my folk club - sometime in the 1970's. He told me that his kids were forming a reggae group.. I told him to dissuade them. I'd heard The Police and I thought, like all white kids, they were shit at reggae - compared to the kids I was teaching.

I was wrong then. You are wrong now.