Bono Quotes

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Rock music is niche.
Rock stars are good at making noise.
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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 them. I'm always chasing that.
The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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.
The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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 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.
There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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.
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.
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