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.

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

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

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

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.