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It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Music can't change the world.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Tell me why ... I don't like Mondays ...

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

The meaning of life is life itself.

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

Rock & roll is instant coffee.

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.