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

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

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.

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

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.

You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

You best go about your way and have a nice day

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away