You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

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.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.