Famous quotes by Bono:

"Africa is bursting into flames while we all stand around with watering cans"

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

"The soul needs beauty for a soul mate. When the soul wants...the soul waits."

"Next time you go out for dinner, have a look around the table and if everyone is on your payroll, the chances are you have become a prick."

"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."

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

"Africa will thrive."

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

"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."

"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."

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

"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."

"But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America."

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

"The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."