The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

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

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.