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.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.