Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency..

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass..

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you..

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it..

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, an….

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..

Rock stars are good at making noise..

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm..

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God..

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw..

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that..

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to….

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that..

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 ….

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together..

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..

The job of art is to chase ugliness away..

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year..

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'….

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around th….