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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

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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Helping Song Writing
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Inspirational Life Positive
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Ambition Chivalry Growth
You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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Hissing Life Living Missing
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.
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Commodities Oil School Two
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Dream Sorrow Swim
I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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Darkness Song Writing
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.
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Justice Pain Real
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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Hands Jesus Looks
God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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God Opportunity Wasted
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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Littles Lost Moments
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?
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Despair Enemy Poverty
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Home People World
Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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Helping Jesus World
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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Birthday Dream Record See Song
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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Eye Mean Ocean
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.
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Culture Rocks Stars
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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Defense Homework World
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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Kings Real Thinking
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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Believe Book War
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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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 !”
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God People Pieces Thank
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
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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Awful Kind World
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Different Littles People
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Country Notice Themselves
I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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Breathing Christian Learn Sure

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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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