Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONOI’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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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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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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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.
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