You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

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.

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

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.