Bob Geldof Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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'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.

Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'

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

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition ... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

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.

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

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

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

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.

Music can't change the world.

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.

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 Kennedy.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

The meaning of life is life itself.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

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