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Paul David Hewson, OL (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono (/ˈbɒnoʊ/), is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of rock band U2.

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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

Artist, Chasing, Interested, Technology, Thinking

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Africans, Cans, Fire, Flames, Needs, Standing

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Believe, Heart, Musician, Nature, Songwriter, Views

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Ironic, Laugh, Laughing, People, Pop, Thought

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.

Boxes, Children, Cries, Inspirational, Mother, Slums

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

Beautiful, Being Yourself, Different, Respect, Thing, United

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots. ' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

Prince, Rocks, Seductive, Song, Sound, Thinking

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Actually, Gone Away, Oddly, Problem, Problems, Thinking

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Artist, Carrying, Cover, Cracks, Thinking

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Baby, Blow, Opened, Son

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

Colours, Emotional, Feelings, Original, Originality, Terrain

The less you know, the more you believe.

Believe, Favourite, Humility, Know

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

Darkness, Make, Mean, People, See, Way

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

Christian, Fervent, Fire, Interface, Live, Thinking

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Catches, Feelings, Instinct, Stronger, Thoughts

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Gets, God, Religion, Sometimes, Way

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Best Work, Know, Knows, Work

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Moves, Moving, Pace, Paradigm, Religious, World

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

Brings, Coal, Cost, Extraction, Minerals, Oil

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Dad, Overcoming, See, Today

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