Quotes from Bono

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.

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

The less you know, the more you believe.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

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.

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

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

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.

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

I'm the man that brought you the mullet.

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.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That's just a joke.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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