You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
BONOYou don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
BONOIt’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
BONOLet’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONOBut 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.
BONOAs a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
BONOYou’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONOThe great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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.
BONOSub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BONOReligion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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,
BONOBecause you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
BONOStop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONOTechnology 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.
BONOI don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
BONOThe extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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