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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

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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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Albums Artist Rolling
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Home People World
I 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.
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Audience Hear Public Opinion
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Inspiration Motivation People
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Christian Jesus Tolerate
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Inspirational Simple Understanding
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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Movie Ridiculous Silly Stars
Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Noise Rocks Stars
The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Ghetto Rocks Self
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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Blessed Wife Years
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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Dear Stupid Wells
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
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
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Dream Sorrow Swim
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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Ends Folks Pops
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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