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 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. 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.
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There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It`s absolute bollocks.
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But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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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.
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I don`t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that`s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
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I`m sure I`m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is the most important tour in Ireland since the Rats because I`ve built up a body of songs, since we split, as a solo artist.
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
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My depressions aren`t so much... depression`s too heavy a word. I get very down and y`know, boredom is the key to it as I`ve said.
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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.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
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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.
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It`s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you`re going to get it to these people.
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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.
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And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don`t have the privilege of bringing them up?
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90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What`s going on? What`s the great discontent at the heart of it?
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Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That`s the way it breaks down in my life.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best.
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Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I`ve several friends just haven`t made it by taking Prozac.
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When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
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Physically I`m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
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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.
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Essentially the change came, and correctly and properly so, when women finally achieved their biological and financial independence concomitantly.
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Music can`t change the world.
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It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
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Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
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Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.
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Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
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If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it`s empirically so.
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