One of the things that I picked up... was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what reli… - Bono

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Religion often gets in the way of God.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

The scale of the suffering and the scope of the commitment they often numb us into a kind of indifference. Wishing for the end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa is like wishing that gravity didn't make things so damn heavy. We can wish it, but what the hell can we do about it? Well, more than we think. We can't fix every problem — corruption, natural calamities are part of the picture here — but the ones we can we must. The debt burden, as I say, unfair trade, as I say, sharing our knowledge, the intellectual copyright for lifesaving drugs in a crisis, we can do that. And because we can, we must. Because we can, we must. Amen.

It is not an exaggeration to say U2 began to write our own songs because we couldn’t play other people’s. Baby steps for a baby band.