The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

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

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.