The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

• What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
• U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
• 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.
• Music can change the world because it can change people.
• 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.
• Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
• You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
• 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.
• Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.