Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

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.