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Quotes from Rolling Stone interview — Bono

born 1960 Ireland

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I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

These are hard subjects to talk about because you can sound like such a dickhead.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

Teenage kids have no sense of mortality — yours or theirs.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there's a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

We could defend ourselves. But even though some of us became pretty good at violence ourselves, others didn't. They got the shit kicked out of 'em.

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bono (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.