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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Bono

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
BONO

Dear Stupid Wells
As 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.
BONO

Believe Heart Views
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO

Believe Favourite Humility
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
BONO

Aids Ethiopia Wife
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONO

Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
BONO

Country Notice Themselves
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONO

God Sometimes Way
Even 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.
BONO

Believer Nervous Watches
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONO

Emotional Feelings Originality
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
BONO

Country Fire Flames Needs
It’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.
BONO

Blessing Looks Weakness
I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
BONO

Darkness Importance Mean People
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONO

Asking Blessed God
Music 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.
BONO

Music Positive Song
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.
BONO

Artist Technology Thinking
You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONO

Aids Victim Watches
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
BONO

Artist Grief Inspiration
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO

Ambition Chivalry Growth
It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
BONO

Culture Rocks Stars
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
BONO

Christian Jesus Tolerate
I 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.
BONO

Blessed Wife Years
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.
BONO

Country People Resistance
When 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 !”
BONO

God People Pieces Thank
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?
BONO

Despair Enemy Poverty
The 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.
BONO

Eye Mean Ocean
It’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,
BONO

Honesty Successful Thinking

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