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.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.