Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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