Quotes from Bono

There is anyway a kind of off-color romance to a deserted seaside town in the winter, your heart's opera scored by the sound of the tide crashing over a stony beach, shushing everything as the waves try to make up their mind whether they're leaving or staying. White waves kissing black stones, shushing all around them. Shhh … shhh.

Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we cane But you I'm sure I've met Long before the night the stars went out We're meeting up again

I'd given myself a license to look back, to lift up stones under which I knew lay creepy-crawlies.

We're one but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other.

Suicide offers quick authority over a life that feels it has lost all agency.

It's as if I have my own persona satan trolling at my shoulder, sowing doubt at every turn. The little divil sprays emotional graffiti all over the walls of my self-respect. But the little divil is me, so why would I put myself through this?

I like my heroes to be alive," she told me. "I like them to grow old.

Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port.

The Lives of Others.

don't scare you, they are not big enough.

Baby's got blue skies up ahead But in this, I'm a rain-cloud Ours is a stormy kind of love

Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man's-land is yes-man's-land.

The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground, even with your opponents, especially with your opponents...You don't have to agree on everything if the one thing you do agree on is important enough.

Pop was to be popular music. Contemporary. Like Andy Warhol's take on news events and celebrity. The big questions right next to the little ones. Our attempt to make the instant eternal. A series of Polaroids of this moment. To keep forever.

Patricide. The stuff of the great operas. U2's music was never really rock 'n' roll. Under its contemporary skin it's opera—a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won't accept he's a baritone. A small man singing giant songs.

Bono era una abreviatura de Bono Vox of O'Connell Street, pero de chaval Guggi no era ningún erudito del latín. La asociación con «Buena Voz» fue una grata coincidencia.

praying to find the intimacy of a band that could be useful to our audience this evening

we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying.

story that will sketch out the first U2 album, Boy, including its cover and final track, "Shadows and Tall Trees," which borrows its title from chapter 7 of the book:

Radar, his youngest brother, who appeared on the cover of two of U2's early albums, Boy and War.

Guggi not only gave me the name Bono; he gave everyone in his family new and surreal names.

Bono was short for Bono Vox of O'Connell Street, but the boy Guggi was no Latin scholar. "Strong Voice" was an accidental translation. Bonavox was a hearing aid shop in Dublin.

The names were supposed to describe the shape of your spirit as well as your physical characteristics.

Los Angeles. More people live off their imagination in this city than any other.