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.

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.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

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.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.