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You Don't Become An 'artist' Unless You've Got Something Missing Somewhere. Blaise Pascal Called It A God-shaped Hole. Everyone's Got One But Some Are Blacker And Wider Than Others. It's A Feeling Of Being Abandoned,cut Adrift In Space And Time-sometimes Following The Loss Of A Loved One. You Can Never Completely Fill That Hole-you Can Try With Songs,family,faith And By Living A Full Life...but When Things Are Silent, You Can Still Hear The Hissing Of What's Missing.

It's Much Easier To Be Successful Than It Is To Be Relevant. The Tricks Won't Keep You Relevant. Tricks Might Keep You Popular For A While, But In All Honesty, I Don't Know How U2 Will Stay Relevant. I Know We've Got A Future. I Know We Can Fill Stadiums. And Yet With Every Record, I Think, 'is This It? Are We Still Relevant?'

I Wouldn't Run For President. I Wouldn't Want To Move To A Smaller House.

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.

There Is A Root Arrogance In Any Writer; A Hugely Arrogant Assumption That Anyone Is Going To Listen To Them.