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.
BONOIn 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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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.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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.
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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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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 !”
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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