None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.

Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.