Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I’d become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Our nation must come together to unite.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘