Top 117 Quotes by Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

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.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

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.

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.