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"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."
"Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding."
"I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them."
"The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious."
"There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them."
"We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back."
"It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others."
"At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that."
"Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner."
"Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that."
"It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain."
"Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world."
"Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children."
"When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !""