Bono Quotes

Irish singer-songwriter and rock musician, member of U2

Paul David Hewson, KBE, OL (born 10 May 1960) is an Irish musician and social activist, who after being nicknamed Bono Vox, became famous as the lead singer of the Irish rock band, U2 using the stage name Bono.

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Birth Name: Paul David Hewson

Alternative Names: Paul Hewson • Bono Vox

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What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
It was a beautiful day.

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.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

I am a Christian - but sometimes I feel very removed from Christianity. The Jesus Christ that I believe in was the man who turned over the tables in the temple and threw the money-changers out - substitute T.V. evangelists if you like…why in the West, do we spend so much money on extending the arms race instead of wiping out malaria, which could be eradicated given ten minutes worth of the world's arm budget? To me, we are living in the most un-Christian times. When I see these racketeers, the snake-oil salesmen on these right-winged television stations, asking for not your $20.00, or your $50.00, but your $100.00 in the name of Jesus Christ, I just want to throw up!!

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

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

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Religion often gets in the way of God.

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.

The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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