We need the Dutch and the Belgians to come along with us at the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and try and push through the great package of change on debt relief. |
We've got to go up to the room now. |
with a wall of celebrities, and no message beyond a vague notion about caring for the poor and wanting politicians to 'do something'. It obliterated everything else. |
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. |
You have to really pick and be careful about what is going to get you the biggest mass audience where you could talk about the conditions of the poor people in Africa. That's what we're doing. If you can suggest to me British blacks acts that should be one, that sell in the same quantities as the bands we've got, fine. |
You will never see it again. You will never see this happen again. It will be the greatest concert ever, |
You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical -- in a positive sense -- in its approach to Africa since (U.S. President) Kennedy. |
You're a rallying point and therefore a whipping boy at the same time, and that's part and parcel of the gig...[But] unless you engage with the political process, you aren't going to get political and economic justice. |