Quotes By Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

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

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

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.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

The less you know, the more you believe.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Rock music is niche.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.