I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BONOI think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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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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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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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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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The less you know, the more you believe.
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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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