Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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.
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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 !”
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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