Quotes By Bono

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.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

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

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

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.

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

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.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

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.