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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Bono

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.
BONO

Darkness Song Writing
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
BONO

Country Notice Themselves
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.
BONO

Music Positive Song
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 !”
BONO

God People Pieces Thank
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.
BONO

Country People Resistance
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BONO

Awful Kind World
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONO

Emotional Feelings Originality
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.
BONO

Audience Hear Public Opinion
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BONO

Home People World
God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
BONO

Ideas might Tiny
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.
BONO

Artist Technology Thinking
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
BONO

House Moving Running
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
BONO

Art Must Understand
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
BONO

Artist Grief Inspiration
You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONO

Aids Victim Watches
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
BONO

Divides Issues People

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