U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.