Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

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

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.