I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
BONOI put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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