Bono Quotes

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.

The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...

People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't.