Quotes

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono

If you think this is going to go to our head, it's too late [on winning five Grammys]
-Bono

On pop music today: It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
-Bono

Take my hand, I'll be there if you can, I'll cross the sky for your love.
-Bono

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.
-Bono

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

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

On Natalie Imbruglia: 'She's the kind of girl you could either rob a bank with or take to church.
-Bono

Nothing changes on New Year's Day.
-Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
-Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
-Bono

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

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss. It's like onstage, 'Some of this bullshit is pretty cool.
-Bono

I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
-Bono

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.
-Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
-Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
-Bono

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
-Bono

If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.
-Bono