The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

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.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

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