Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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.
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Convictions, 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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I 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.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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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.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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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.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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