I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

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Music can change the world because it can change people.

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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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The less you know, the more you believe.

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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

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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 them to schools and hospitals.

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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

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