The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

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

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

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.