Quotes

“Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.” Bono

“God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.” Bono

“I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.” Bono

“I don't like the name, U2, actually.” Bono

“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.” Bono

“I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.” Bono

“I 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.” Bono

“I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.” Bono

“I'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.” Bono

“I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.” Bono

“I'm never nervous.” Bono

“I'm the man that brought you the mullet.” Bono

“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.” Bono

“In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.” Bono

“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.” Bono

“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.” Bono

“Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.” Bono

“Rock music is niche.” Bono

“Rock stars are good at making noise.” Bono

“Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.” Bono

“So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.” Bono

“Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.” Bono

“The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.” Bono

“The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.” Bono

“The job of art is to chase ugliness away.” Bono

“The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.” Bono

“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.” Bono

“U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.” Bono

“U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.” Bono

“What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.” Bono