Because You Know When You First Become

The Great Music For So Many Artists - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - Was Always At The Moment When They Were Closest To Pop. It Would Be Easy For U2 To Go Off And Have A Concept Album, But I Want Us To Stay In The Pop Fray.

But More Than Anything Else, For The British Folks Irish People Were All Terrorists. So When We Went To Britain, It Was Always A Lot Of Resistance To U2. And That's Why We Came To America.

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.

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.

The Great Gifts Of Models Are Not That They're More Beautiful Than The Next Person, It's That They're Able To Be Photographed And Not Be Self-conscious.