The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
BONOI 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.
More Bono Quotes
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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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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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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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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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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