Quotes from Bono

Rock 'n' roll is the sound of revenge, all right.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience

I'm one in four, and a real rock 'n' roll band is not run by the singer. Led maybe, but not run.

Un trabajo es un sitio donde haces algo que, en el fondo, no te gusta durante unas ocho horas al día cinco o seis días a la semana a cambio de dinero que te permita hacer el fin de semana las cosas que te gustaría hacer todo el tiempo.

It's important people don't forget that the revolution in Russia began with the most noble ideals; my grandfather believed in those ideals.

The greatest songwriting is never conclusive, but the search for conclusion

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

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

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.

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.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

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

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

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

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

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

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

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

Perspective is the cure for depression.

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