It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

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

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.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.