If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
Perspective is the cure for depression.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That’s never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It’s very odd, ’cause I don’t have a dog.
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.
Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel – on your knees boy!
There’s a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you’re in the wrong place.
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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.
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.
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. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.