That’s a serious wedge, and shows a political climate change,

I think he’s really throwing down the gauntlet. It’s a very bold move, … comes from despair and lack of hope.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.

Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the...

You’re a rallying point and therefore a whipping boy at the same time, and that’s part and parcel of the gig…[But] unless you engage with the political process, you aren’t going to get political and...

Not to be immodest, but the first one was perfect in almost every sense, … Artistically, people seemed to up the ante, and the performances were pretty great across the board. Huge amounts of money...

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

Canada’s weird, … Canada invented 0.7. They really invented this great notion. Canada is the sole country of the G8 enjoying a surplus.

I had this big fight with Madame X, Mrs. Thatcher, 20 years ago, and now the government understands politically it’s not worth it to go up against it.

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

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

I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived....

Irish Americans are about as Irish as Black Americans are African.

Music can’t change the world.

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

We need the Dutch and the Belgians to come along with us at the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and try and push through the great package of change on debt relief,

I feel very proud,

I will be extremely active in trying to get these people thrown out of office.

That we can tilt the world a little bit in favor of the poor.

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

You have to really pick and be careful about what is going to get you the biggest mass audience where you could talk about the conditions of the poor people in Africa. That’s what we’re...

You will never see it again. You will never see this happen again. It will be the greatest concert ever,

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.

You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical — in a positive sense — in its approach to Africa since (U.S. President) Kennedy.

It is raining and it’s cold, but it is a beautiful day.

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.

I understand this is a process but the process should have been accelerated and added to at the UN.

On late ex-wife Paula Yates and her lover Michael Hutchence: They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact they were more like Tom and Jerry.

I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was...

If I can make things a little hotter for the government, if the Tories can push harder on the government and if there is more of a debate on this then good.

This is the first time we have heard this sort of language. This is very, very positive indeed.

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

If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder and say, ‘come on dudes, I’ll give you a hand up’.

I can see you’re going to be trouble, Claire.

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?

I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The Long Walk to Justice.

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

I don’t care who I have to get to, to make this agenda work. They must know that I am in no one’s pocket, that I am not beholden to anyone.

We are dealing with the roots of that [African] poverty.

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