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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

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.

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

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

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

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.

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.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

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

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

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.