The Right To Be Irresponsible And Stupid

The Fact Is That Ours Is The First Generation That Can Look Disease And Extreme Poverty In The Eye, Look Across The Ocean To Africa, And Say This, And Mean It. We Do Not Have To Stand For This. A Whole Continent Written Off - We Do Not Have To Stand For This.

We're Starting Our Own Religion At Last. The Order Of Frisbeetarians. We Believe That When You Die, Your Soul Ascends To A Rooftop And You Can Never Get It Back.

The Idea That There Is One Kind Of African Is Of Course Ridiculous. Sometimes African Entrepreneurs Want To Kill You Because You Are Saying Public Health Is The Priority, Not Roads. Of Course They Are Right To Press For That Issue, But So Are We Right, I Believe, To Argue For Example That Millions Of Children Could And Should Be Vaccinated.

I Get To Hear The Really Good Or The Really Bad Things In The Press, But I Don't Read It. I Can Afford To Say That Because Public Opinion Does Not Drive U2's Audience.

The Only Person Who Ever Called Me Paul Was My Father, So I Always Associate It With Doing Something Wrong, You Know. So, You Know, Occasionally, People Will Come Up To Me On The Street And Try To, You Know, Ingratiate Themselves And Call Me Paul. I Don't Like It, Actually.