U2's Best Work Has Always Been When

Africa Is A Continent In Flames. And Deep Down, If We Really Accepted That Africans Were Equal To Us, We Would All Do More To Put The Fire Out. We're Standing Around With Watering Cans, When What We Really Need Is The Fire Brigade.

Sub-saharan Africa Is Also Home To 400 Million Of The World's Poorest People.

As A Musician And A Songwriter It Is An Act Of The Ego To Believe That Other People Might Be Interested In Your Point Of View. But It Is Usually An Empathetic Nature That Gets You Going In The First Place. Music Keeps The Heart Porous In Many Ways.

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.

The Great Moments Of Rock 'n' Roll Were Never Off In Some Corner Of The Music World, In A Self-constructed Ghetto.