Bono Quotes

Abandonment is probably the root of paranoia.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

I’m drawn to conversation because in the best kind you don’t know where you’re going, only that you will get somewhere good.

Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we came But you I’m sure I’ve met Long before the night the stars went out We’re meeting up again.

There is anyway a kind of off-color romance to a deserted seaside town in the winter,

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

I was in my room listening on headphones on a tape recorder. It's very intimate. It's like talking to somebody on the phone, like talking to John Lennon on the phone. I'm not exaggerating to say that. This music changed the shape of the room. It changed the shape of the world outside the room; the way you looked out the window and what you were looking at. I remember John singing "Oh My Love." It's like a little hymn. It's certainly a prayer of some kind — even if he was an atheist. "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes can see/I see the wind/Oh, I see the trees/Everything is clear in our world." For me it was like he was talking about the veil lifting off, the scales falling from the eyes. Seeing out the window with a new clarity that love brings you. I remember that feeling. Yoko came up to me when I was in my twenties, and she put her hand on me and she said, "You are John's son." What an amazing compliment!

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.

I hadn't done drugs since sniffing Lady Esquire shoe polish when I was fifteen. I didn't need to. I felt the pinch of wonder.

So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, "No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails." Well at best I've got one of the two of those.

Un trabajo es un sitio donde haces algo que, en el fondo, no te gusta durante unas ocho horas al día cinco o seis días a la semana a cambio de dinero que te permita hacer el fin de semana las cosas que te gustaría hacer todo el tiempo.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Many can claim to love music, but very few, in my experience, can claim music loves them back,