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

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

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.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.