Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

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

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.