Bono

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

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.

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.

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, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.