Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.

When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.