The less you know, the more you believe.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

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

As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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