At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

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.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

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.

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.