Quotes By Bono

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

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.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

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.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Africa will thrive.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

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.