So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

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

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.