Quotes By Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

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

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

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.

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

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

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

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

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.

I'm never nervous.

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

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

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

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

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

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

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

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.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.