Good Quotes from a Good U2 Article

posted on November 07, 2004 in Music Quotes // View Comments

Interview with U2:

“After the initial struggle, they used to worry if they were too biblical to be cool.”

“She thought I’d make a priest one day.”
- Larry Mullen, about his mom

“But the band is all I’ve ever wanted, and I get paid for it.”
- Larry Mullen

“We’ve grown up being a political band. We never saw a need to separate religion and politics from everything we write about and care about.”
- The Edge

“Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.”
- The Edge

“So I just looked at the most powerful man in the free world as he waved at the crowd, and I said, ‘So you are pretty popular round here?’ and he goes, ‘It wasn’t always so. See, when I first came here, people used to wave at me with one finger.’”
- Bono about George Bush

“You can exorcise your demons or you can exercise them. I don’t know what I’ve discovered about myself from analysis. The thing to watch for is navel-gazing — and I do have a very nice one — but most of what I’ve learnt about myself you discover in other people.”
- Bono

“No, you can’t love too much. You can’t out-give God.” He pauses. “But you should try, I think. That’s where I’d like to spend the rest of my life.”
-Bono

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