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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.

Bono

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.
BONO

Inspire Music Songs
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONO

Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
BONO

Ends Folks Pops
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
BONO

Dream Sorrow Swim
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
BONO

Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
The 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.
BONO

Able Beautiful Self
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
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
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
It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
BONO

Justice Pain Real
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
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BONO

Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
BONO

Commodities Oil School Two
I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
BONO

Concerts Country Debt World
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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Country Digging Thinking
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONO

Joy Laughter Real

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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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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