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.
Bono

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

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.
Bono

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

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

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.
Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
Bono

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

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

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