Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Africa will thrive.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I'm never nervous.

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

Rock music is niche.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

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.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.