Bono Quotations | Page 2

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.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

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.

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

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.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

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 - those billionaire reports are a joke.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world...

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 !"

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

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.

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.

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.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

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.

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.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy!

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.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

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.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

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.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

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.

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.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.