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.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

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.

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

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

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.