Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

Playing live if the thing I love doing best

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry