"When we were growing up, the 45 single was the heart of rock-and-roll and in many regards still is. It's the hardest …"

"Rock n roll stops the traffic"

"It is fair to say that we overreacted a bit. … Its not really worth defending my action, I did it in the spirit of th…"

"What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President."

"It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty, the …"

"We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies…"

"Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out a…"

"The thing about The Dubliners is — line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The W…"

"All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just sai…"

"What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?"