I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.