Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
As a musician usually music is your way out.
I’ve always known I’m incredibly special. All my life. You know? It’s not a big deal.
The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.
Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don’t like new with change.
There’s always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.
I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.
Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
If you don’t see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don’t know how you’re going to feel about it.