Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

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