The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.