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.

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

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.