“Every man could relate to him, but nobody could be him. To be that extraordinary and that ordinary was his real gift. That, and his humor and his bare-boned honesty. When I visited him at home one time, he said the most beautiful, poetic grace. He said, ‘Shall we bow our heads?’ We all bowed our heads. Then, when he was done, he looked at me and Adam Clayton and said, ‘Sure miss the drugs, though.’ It was just to say, ‘I haven’t become a holy Joe.’ He just couldn’t be self-righteous. I think he was a very godly man, but you had the sense that he had spent his time in the desert. And that just made you like him more. It gave his songs some dust. And that voice was definitely locusts and honey. As for ‘Hurt,’ it’s perhaps the best video ever made.”

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