"Sometimes religion gets in the way of God."
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"Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back."
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"I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy."
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"I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience."
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"The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog."
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"It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'"
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"I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks."
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"I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year."
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"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."
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"Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously."
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"It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions."
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"I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed."
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"Rock stars are good at making noise."
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"The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray."
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"Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency."
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"The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated."
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"I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se."
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"Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief."
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"U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing."
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"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."
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