Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
BONOConvictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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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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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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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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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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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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