There Is A Root Arrogance In Any

The Extraction Of Oil, Coal And Minerals Brought, And Still Brings, A Cost To The Environment.

You See, Africa Makes A Fool Of Our Idea Of Justice. It Makes A Farce Of Our Idea Of Equality. It Mocks Our Pieties. It Doubts Our Concern. It Questions Our Commitment. Because There Is No Way We Can Look At What's Happening In Africa, And If We're Honest, Conclude That It Would Ever Be Allowed To Happen Anywhere Else.

I Get To Hear The Really Good Or The Really Bad Things In The Press, But I Don't Read It. I Can Afford To Say That Because Public Opinion Does Not Drive U2's Audience.

Convictions, In The End, They Can Be Dangerous, But A World Without Them Is Just Kind Of An Awful Kind Of Gray, Amorphous Mass.

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?'