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.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

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

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.

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

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