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

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.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

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

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can