Bob Geldof

“Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.”

“Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.”

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

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

“I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.”

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

“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.”

“Music can't change the world.”

“There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.”

“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.”

“Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.”

“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.”

“The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.”

“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.”

“I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.”

“Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.”

“Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.”

“If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.”

“It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.”

“I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.”