Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

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

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

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

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.

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.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.