I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.