I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

How do you make a million? You start with $900 000.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Wisdom is knowing when you have enough.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

It gives the guys confidence and self-belief. Two or three years ago I think we would have lost it. The confidence that we have, we can actually nail it.

I think about every song is pretty much raw emotion - even if it's not specifically about topic there's songs like "All I Know Is Pain" and "Green Piece of Paper".