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.

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

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.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.