The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

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.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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.