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

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.