Bono quotes

“Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.”

— Bono

“Africa will thrive.”

— Bono

“Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.”

— Bono

“As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.”

— Bono

“At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.”

— Bono

“Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.”

— Bono

“Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.”

— Bono

“Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.”

— Bono

“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