Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.