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.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
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.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
If you think this is going to go to our head, it's too late [on winning five Grammys]
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
On pop music today: It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
On Natalie Imbruglia: 'She's the kind of girl you could either rob a bank with or take to church.
- 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. It's like onstage, 'Some of this bullshit is pretty cool.
- Bono
If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.
- Bono
Take my hand, I'll be there if you can, I'll cross the sky for your love.
- Bono
Nothing changes on New Year's Day.
- Bono
I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
- Bono
