Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is so much hope for Africa now that South Africa has got its house in order.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.