It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

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.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

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

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.