238 Quotes by Bono

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 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.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

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.

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.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

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

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.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.