I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.