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

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

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

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

Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on