At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action..

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..

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.

The less you know, the more you believe..

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition..

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then t….

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today..

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves..

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, peo….

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS..

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their u….

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….

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to b….

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because ….

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questi….

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place..

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….

Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my bac….

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth..

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 ….

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we ma….