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 right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

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.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

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

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.