3 December 2020 Bono I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.
3 December 2020 Bono Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.
3 December 2020 Bono U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
3 December 2020 Bono Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
3 December 2020 Bono Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Bono 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.
3 December 2020 Bono 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.
3 December 2020 Bono The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
3 December 2020 Bono I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.
3 December 2020 Bono 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Bono Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
3 December 2020 Bono You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
3 December 2020 Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
3 December 2020 Bono 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.
3 December 2020 Bono Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
