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Music can't change the world.
Rock & roll is instant coffee.
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.
Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
What's the point in having a company of secretaries?
Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
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 cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
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?
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.
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.
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
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 Kennedy.
Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.