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

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

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.

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

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

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