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

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

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.

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.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

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

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