You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time. Bono More Quotes by Bono More Quotes From Bono Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. Bono home people world Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. Bono grief artist inspiration As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto. Bono ghetto rocks hip-hop Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. Bono digging country thinking Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency. Bono emergencies development done It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions. Bono scripture poverty air The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you. Bono I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. Bono hate dream two I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks. Bono cracks artist thinking 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. Bono equality rights talking Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children. Bono pops children When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !" Bono pieces thank-god people Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world. Bono helping world jesus Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. Bono good you good-teacher teacher Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities. Bono man heroism freedom leadership Rock music is niche. Bono rock rock-music niche music With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it. Bono walk best you funny What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. Bono blues being powerful praise
