“Girls are wily. My girls give me lingering kisses on the lips, and I thought it was because they loved me, and I found out they were checking if I was smoking.”
— Bono
“Our music is primarily uplifting, but at the same time there’s a realism to our music as opposed to an escapism.”
— Bono
“I might be a hero on stage, but off-stage I’m an anti-hero.”
— Bono
“Rock and roll started out as dance music, but somewhere along the way it lost its hips and became rhythmically simplistic.”
— Edge
“[Edge] is almost embarrassed about being a guitar player because he wants to sound fresh.”
— Bono
“I think the opposite of love is not hate. It’s apathy. You only get angry about things you really care about.”
— Bono
“[T]he lyrics aren’t literature; they are only part of the story.”
— Bono
“I can’t look at the audience as a mass. It disturbs me. I have to look for individuals.”
— Bono
“We’ve never been cool; we’re hot. Irish people are Italians who can’t dress, Jamaicans who can’t dance.”
— Bono
“A song of ours that relies on its studio production to work is generally a song we play once or twice and never play again.”
— Edge
“It’s a very special song, because it’s the first time that we ever really made a statement.”
— Larry, on “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
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