U2 Quotes
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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.
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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.
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
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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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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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Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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.
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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.