Bob Geldof Thoughts

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

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

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

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

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

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

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.

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.

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