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.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

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

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

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.