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 understanding.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

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.

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 be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

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 understanding.