With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we...

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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son...

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I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating...

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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred...

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