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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
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...
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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.
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'