Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.