It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONOWhere you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
More Bono Quotes
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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