It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.