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.
BONOYou 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.
BONOTo be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BONOThe fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
BONOIt’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONOIt’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
BONOI’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
BONOReligion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
BONOEven 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.
BONOWhat 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.
BONOWhen those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
BONOGod 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.
BONOU2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
BONOMusic 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.
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.
BONOBooks! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONOChristians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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