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.

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

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.