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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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