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If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex. Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
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There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
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I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
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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.
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
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I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.
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'We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it'.
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These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.
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Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.
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We had a street gang that was very vivid - very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet - with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.
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And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
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Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
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The biggest misconception about me was that I was some kind of wild, crazy rock'n'roll firework. It was an easy image to pick up on, but I'd like to think I was a little deeper than that.
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.
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You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.