In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.