When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

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

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

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

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.