If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

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

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

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.