Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

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.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

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.

The less you know, the more you believe.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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.

My favorite thing about Los Angeles is there are businesses that you can call, and they will deliver groceries to your house.

Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.

I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'

I would not want to be Richard Simmons... right now or anytime. He seems like a nice guy, but if I had to dress like that? That would absolutely suck.

I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.