Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONOWhere you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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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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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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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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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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