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.

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.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

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

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.