I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
Playing live if the thing I love doing best.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he’s enamoured by it. I’m enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.
You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
Feed the world. Let them know it’s Christmas time again.
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book.
Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it’s very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
Think. That’s what we need you to do. Think.
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What’s going on? What’s the great discontent at the heart of it?