Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.