Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined

Music can't change the world.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Playing live if the thing I love doing best

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Rock & roll is instant coffee.

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

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.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.