Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us.
I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.
I don't like singing before noon.
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.
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