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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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But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
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What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
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I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.
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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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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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Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.
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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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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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 right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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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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If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.
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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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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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There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
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There is a continent - Africa - being consumed by flames. I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not to - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
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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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Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.