The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.