Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONOBooks! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONOReligion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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.
BONOSadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
BONODistance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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.
BONOMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BONOU2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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.
BONOLet’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONOIn my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOSub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BONOI 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.
BONOEssentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONOThe idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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 !”
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