Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

When you're good at something, make that everything

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music can't change the world.