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

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Music can't change the world.

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.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best