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.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can