I have never tried to write this thing called a song that's played on radios all around the world, that window-cleaners hum, that people listen to in traffic jams. I was never interested in song: U2 came about through a sound.

I find myself in a very unusual position, which is having to praise politicians.

I hope that my work - the activism - will be forgotten. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

I don't think people should ever look like their hair has been ironed.