“I think that the camera loves peopke who...loathe the camera (Bono)”

“A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)”

“I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)”

“Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.”

“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.”

“People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument.”

“Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.”