Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.