Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me