The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONOEssentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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 don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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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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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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