“I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.”

“The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.”

“I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.”

“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)”

“Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.”

“For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.”

“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.”