Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
BONOBooks! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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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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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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.
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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