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.

Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

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.