U2 Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.
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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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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
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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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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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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 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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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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I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
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Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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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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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small – minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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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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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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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.