You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.
Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.