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

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

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

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

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

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

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.