Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONOAs 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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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.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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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.
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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’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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