Bob Geldof

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life. ”

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac. ”

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do. ”

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. ”

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band. ”

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. ”

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks. ”

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. ”

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. ”

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up? ”