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.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

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

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