Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

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.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.