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.
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.
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.
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.
ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance.
It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than lose it.
David was “a star, the Elvis of the Bible.” An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.
The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I’m not normally a navel-gazer. I’ve always thought you find yourself in other people. I’m visiting here. I don’t want to set up house.
Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.
I love America and I hate it. I’m torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
On the phone, it’s about as intimate as it can get. The person’s right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open
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.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Jesus isn’t lettin’ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‘Good teacher’, ‘Prophet’, ‘Really nice guy’ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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.
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.