What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I’m not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.
I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter – it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.
Some soldier will say, ‘You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I’m glad you came all the way out here.’ And you know, you say, ‘Well, maybe one day you’ll see the light but I’m glad to be out here with you.’
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher’s well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.
Do it or don’t. It’s amazing how many things in life are that easy.
I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
I don’t want to fail the audience. I don’t want to let them down.
I beg young people to travel...
I’ve always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you’ve got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn’t supposed to be easy.
Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.
Life will not break your heart. It’ll crush it.
Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.