Say what?WHAT’S THE MEANING of life?
Were you wondering? You can stop. Gay Byrne asked Bono for us! Hurray! Here are the best things Bono said during their hour-long chat.
You’re 14, you don’t know why you feel the way you feel and you have some… rage. Let’s put it like that.
Irish males are a piece of work, are they not?
(By the way, in this picture he’s imitating Pope John-Paul II wearing his shades.)
The Edge’s original nickname was Inchicore. Can you imagine if I was introducing him now? Inchicore! Well, everyone in Inchicore would be up for it.
Larry was Jamjar.
When I look my most smug, I’m usually at my most nervous.
We did not start the band to save the world, we started the band to save our own ass.
Paul McGuinness: the Winston Churchill of rock.
Bob is not famous for throwing it around. He’s… frugal.
We live on a small rock in the North Atlantic and we would be underwater were it not for very clever people working in government and in the Revenue who made tax competitiveness a central part of Irish economic life. And that’s the reason we have companies like Google or Facebook – and indeed I helped bring those companies to Ireland.
I want to say – we pay a lot of tax. But we are tax sensible – as every business is.
I am tough. And I may sing from a very private and intimate place, and I make art, but I’m tough-minded and I’m intellectually rigorous.
(To be fair, he did add “I hope”.)
The Holy Spirit is much more anarchic than we think.
I do believe there’s a force of love and logic behind the universe.
I’ve no problem with miracles. I live around them. I am one.
If you’d like the watch the interview for yourself, it’s up on RTE Player for the next 21 days. As you can tell from the above quotes, it’s quite something.
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