Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

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.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.