There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to be careful about the prayers that we chose and the music I wrote because I didn't want to offend either side.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.