I don't mean to boog ya.  Ok Edge, play the blues!

Yeah! And let me tell you something… I've had enough of Irish-Americans who haven't been back to their country in 20 or 30 years, come up to me and talk about theresistance, the revolution back home. And the glory of the revolution. And the glory of dying for the revolution.
Fuck the revolution!
They don't talk about…

Yeah! And let me tell you something… I've had enough of Irish-Americans who haven't been back to their country in 20 or 30 years, come up to me and talk about theresistance, the revolution back home. And the glory of the revolution. And the glory of dying for the revolution.
Fuck the revolution!
They don't talk about…

I don't believe in painted roses 
Or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again 
When the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red
Over One Tree Hill

We knew the world was ready to receive the heirs to The Who. All we had to do was to keep doing what we were doing and we would become the biggest band since Led Zeppelin, without a doubt. But something just didn't feel right. We felt we had more dimension than just the next big anything, we had something unique to…

Bruce has played every bar in the USA, and every stadium. Credibility? You couldn't have more, unless you were dead. But Bruce Springsteen, you always knew, was not gonna die stupid. He didn't buy the mythology that screwed so many people. Instead, he created an alternate mythology - one where ordinary lives became…

It's dysfunctional love story.  A fable about the power of love.

I have to say I’m the one who’s always mourning the lack of Radiohead on pop radio because I long to hear Thom Yorke’s voice and I long to hear a band as able as that up against, you know, Blue.  I can’t blame Radiohead from pulling back from the fray. You have to have a stomach for it. It’s a lot to swallow, but not…

Neil, if you want your life back, you’ll have to kill me.  You should call the book "Killing Bono."  I know a lot of people who would wear that T-shirt. You have to kill me. It’s for your own good. And mine.

Magnificent was inspired by the Magnificat, a passage from the Gospel of Luke in the voice of the Virgin Mary that was previously set to music by Bach. There’s this theme running through the album of surrender and devotion and all the things I find really difficult.

We’re just about to come to five million sales on No Line on the Horizon , and that, these days, is the equivalent of selling 12 million records.  You can actually do the figures on that. So when you look at it like that, it has the same sales as All That You Can’t Leave Behind. That’s despite the fact that No Line…

Bob Dylan is like the Picasso of rock music, as far as I am concerned, and we all just carry his luggage.

A lot of the reasons people don't like us, apart from myself, which I understand because I have to live with me too - are actually what make us interesting.

"The Fly" is like a crank call from Hell… but the caller likes it there.  "Mysterious Ways" is U2 at our funkiest… Sly and The Family Stone meets Madchester baggy.

"The Fly" is like a crank call from Hell… but the caller likes it there.  "Mysterious Ways" is U2 at our funkiest… Sly and The Family Stone meets Madchester baggy.

The Edge is a genius, scientist, a man sexually aroused by data, a Zen
Presbyterian and one of the few Christians I've ever met and liked.

The two most important ingredients of rock: the forbidden and the mysterious.

The Fly is Blues and Gospel, Heaven and Hell. The Fly can see both sides but he isn't quite sure which one he's on.

It's an odd way to live your life as a composer, building your house from the sky down.

Coldplay are such an extraordinary band with such song writing talents.  I think Chris Martin is one of the most important melodists since Noel Gallagher, since Ray Davies, since Paul McCartney. He's in the line of great British melodists.