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

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

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.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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