Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

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

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.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

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