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.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

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

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

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

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.