If I don't understand it, it must be art.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

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

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?

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

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

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.