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

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.