The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.

People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.