It's Quite Widespread In Rock Culture, That

The Strangest Thing Has Happened. I Really Missed My Dog. That's Never Happened To Me Before. You Know, On A Long Tour You Do Hear People Saying They Miss Their Pets. I Never Have. But Last Night I Started Really Missing My Dog. It's Very Odd, 'cause I Don't Have A Dog.

The Fact Is That Ours Is The First Generation That Can Look Disease And Extreme Poverty In The Eye, Look Across The Ocean To Africa, And Say This, And Mean It. We Do Not Have To Stand For This. A Whole Continent Written Off - We Do Not Have To Stand For This.

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.

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.

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.