Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

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