U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONOIt’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
More Bono Quotes
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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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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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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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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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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.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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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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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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