Larry Mullen
Larry Mullen
Laurence Joseph "Larry" Mullen Jr.is an Irish musician and actor, best known as the drummer of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 13 studio albums with U2. Mullen was born and raised in Dublin, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School, where, in 1976, he co-founded U2 after posting a message on the school's notice board. His drumming style developed from his playing martial beats in a childhood marching band, the...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 October 1961
CountryIreland
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
We would have rather had a fire like that and know that nothing was burnt or damaged. We didn't feel bad about it at all.
I'm thinking he thought he was protecting them.
He saw people murdered in there. He saw people being raped.
He's been crying out for help all his life.
He was just a sweet kid. I just wish I had an answer.
Something happened to him inside that California prison.
Now he's thrown into a cluster of real bad people. He saw people murdered in there. He saw people being raped.
The idea that our longtime U2 fans and scalpers competed for U2 tickets through our own Web site is appalling to me, ... I want to apologize to you who have suffered that.