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

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

A good song never gets old.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

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?‘

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.