Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.