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

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

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.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.