The Edge Quotations

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.