God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

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

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

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.