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

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

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.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

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.