If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.

If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.