Taste is the enemy of a good death. - Bono

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

You know that Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue" where he gives the kid a girl's name, and the kid is beaten up at every stage in his life by macho guys, but in the end he becomes the toughest man. … By not encouraging me to be a musician, even though that's all he ever wanted to be, he's made me one. By telling me never to have big dreams or else, that to dream is to be disappointed, he made me have big dreams. By telling me that the band would only last five minutes or ten minutes — we're still here.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.