I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
BONOSometimes religion gets in the way of God.
More Bono Quotes
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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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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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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