You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know.
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
Music can't change the world.
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.
Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
Playing live if the thing I love doing best.
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
