It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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.
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.
Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.
Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.
Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.
Rock & roll is instant coffee.
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
Music can't change the world.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know
What's the point in having a company of secretaries?
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.
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.
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.
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