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The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.
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The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.
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You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
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Bono and Edge can have their heads down trying to complete material and lose perspective, whereas Larry and I can come in with a fresh perspective. It's both a blessing and a curse. Someone who's put in a lot of hours in a tune is reluctant to give up on it and admit it's not making the grade.
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Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Rock music is niche.
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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.
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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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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.
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It was like - throw out technology. Give us a microphone and a bit of tape and you do the bit in between.
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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.
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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.
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I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.