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Bono

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.
BONO

Inspire Music Songs
It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO

Cynical Sweet Teeth
It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
BONO

Culture Rocks Stars
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
BONO

Aids Ethiopia Wife
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.
BONO

Breathing Christian Learn Sure
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.
BONO

Birthday Dream Record See Song
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONO

Inspirational Life Positive
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
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Inspirational Simple Understanding
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
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.
BONO

Abandoned Everyone Following Sometimes
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
BONO

Honesty Successful Thinking
Rock stars are good at making noise.
BONO

Noise Rocks Stars
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONO

Asking Blessed God
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
BONO

Country Notice Themselves
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONO

Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
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.
BONO

Albums Artist Rolling
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
BONO

Defense Homework World
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BONO

Catholic Rocks Stars
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.
BONO

Eye Mean Ocean
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
BONO

House Moving Running
The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
BONO

Able Beautiful Self
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.
BONO

Believer Nervous Watches
The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
BONO

Minded Religion Small Vision
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
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONO

Joy Laughter Real
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
BONO

Dream Sorrow Swim

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