The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.