Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

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

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

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

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