Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.
Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.
Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.
Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.
Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. . . it's just something I have to do.
The problem for most people as they get older is that they start to buy into their own bullshit to the extent that they just have to eliminate from their inner sanctum anyone who is going to really challenge it. But I think all bandmates of U2 were lucky enough to have the four of us respect and regard each other to the extent that we're kind of always looking out for one another, so none of us can get away with buying into the bullshit.
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.
She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind. ” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.
The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.