"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."
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"Whenever I see grace, I’m moved."
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"The less you know, the more you believe."
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"Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it."
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"Perspective is the cure for depression."
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"The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto."
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"You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time."
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"As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways."
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"Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke."
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"It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio."
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"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."
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"Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words."
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"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
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"I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house."
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"It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition."
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"At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action."
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"If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting."
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"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die."
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"Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?"
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"The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian."
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