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

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

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

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.

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

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.

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

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

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.

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.