Quotes from Bob Geldof

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The meaning of life is life itself.

Time doesn't heal, it accommodates.

Don't forget, I am above the law [to Michael Hutchence]

you may as well push yourself right to the very extremes of your capabilities

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

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

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

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.

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

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

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.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

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

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.

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?