Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
BONOThe extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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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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