Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

On late ex-wife Paula Yates and her lover Michael Hutchence: They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact they were more like Tom and Jerry.

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.

to do something unparalleled in the world, and especially at the beginning of the 21st Century, and that is to tilt the world a little bit on its axis in favor of the poor, and that's not a difficult thing to do.