Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

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

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.

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.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.