Music can't change the world.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

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

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

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

Playing live if the thing I love doing best

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

Rock & roll is instant coffee.

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

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

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

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