Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONOLaughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONOThere was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
BONOCelebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
BONOI get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
BONOI don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
BONOWe thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONOWhen 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 !”
BONOI wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
BONOThe idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
BONOBecause you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
BONOBooks! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONOThe great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONOWhere you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONOWhen 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.
BONOIn my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
BONOYou don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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