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

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

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