Bono
Bono
Paul David Hewson, known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, frequently using religious, social, and political themes. During U2's early years, his lyrics contributed to...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth10 May 1960
CityGlasnevin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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.
There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
The less you know, the more you believe.
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.