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

Rock & roll is instant coffee.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

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

It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best