Bono Quotes

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy!

A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)

Africa will thrive.

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

put flowers in the mud, baby.
Overground.

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

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

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I don't like the name, U2, actually.

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.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

I'm the man that brought you the mullet.

I dont know you. And you don't know the half of it.

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

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

I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

I don't believe the devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up

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

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

What we're about in this band, I hope ... is that we put people before ideas.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world ...

babe, it must be art

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

blessed are the stupid who can dream

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Rock music is niche.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

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

The less you know, The more you believe.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

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.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

I think that the camera loves peopke who ... loathe the camera (Bono)