I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Intimates are predestined.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

My music is a luxury.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.