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

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.

For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.

When you lose yourself in love, you find everything.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

Court... a place where they dispense with justice.

An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?