You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

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

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.