U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

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.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

The less you know, the more you believe.