The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

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

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.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.