Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

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

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.