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.
Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It’s absolute bollocks.
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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.
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don’t have the privilege of bringing them up?
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.
I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.
Music can’t change the world.
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry.
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.