Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Rock music is niche.