-"I like to dance."
-"Music can be sooo boring, sooo conservative, sooo predictable."
-"I'd like to remix every U2 album."
-"Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month"
-"I didn't get into the band to become a celebrity. I got into the band because I wanted to play music and write songs and tour and do all that stuff."
-"I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials."
-"I think the songs on this new record are probably the strongest songs we've ever had, so in that sense I'm very excited about the album."-The Edge on All That You Can't Leave Behind
-"I think theres alot of people puzzled, to be honest, about what we're trying to do."
-"It's a real drag if you don't like yourself, 'cos you do spend a lot of time with yourself."
-"I have a terrible habit of finding really unimportant, trivial, manual things to do. I'll go mow the lawn, or find some piece of furniture that needs varnishing, or...paint the cat."
-"I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do."
-"My attitude is that it should be something that the music industry should welcome with open arms. I don't have any of the sort of fears or paranoias that seem to be common amongst the music business. I think they're in danger of actually falling so far behind what's going on the Internet that they might actually just miss the boat, but um, it's great. I mean there's so many ways that it can develop and I'm sure there's ways that no-one's even thought of yet."
-"The chords are just the canvas. What shape canvas do you want?"
-"You know, the record we were trying to make was quite a bit more joyful and about a certain kind of love of live and vitality, And that's in there, but there's also this other side, which sort of crept into the record almost without me noticing. And if the record was about breaking things back down to essentials, I suppose in the end mortality is the ultimate inescapable fact of life."-The Edge on All That You Can't Leave Behind
-"Zoo TV was just letting our imaginations run riot and anyone else's we could get our hands on."
--"When we talk about rock'n'roll, we're not gonna suddenly turn into Bon Jovi. We never meant that."
-"We're not a punk band or ska band or whatever.We're just U2."
--"This day has done everything it can for us. This day owes us nothing."
-"I think this is where U2's future lies. Choreography. Four Tops type stuff."
-"You can write 100 songs that never mean a thing, and then you might write a song that means everything. There's a certain humbling realization that it sort of happens to you; it's not something you really can turn on and off."
-"Amid the uncertainty there are certain ideas that are so powerful and so right that you can hold onto them no matter how screwed up everything else is."
-"I don't feel that attached to my instruments. It's almost like I'm going to dominate them in some sort of way. I don't feel like they're part of me; they stand between me and something new."
-"I suppose in the back of your mind everyone thinks that maybe one day we're going to write together and we just wont have anything to say. Literally there will be nothing more to add. You all hope that everyone knows when that time has come and you don't go on to do some completely awful album that everyone recognizes to be a disaster."
--"As usual, we're out of step with what everyone else is doing. If you ever want to find out what's going on, look at what we're doing and it's going to be the opposite of it. In the middle of the materialistic '80s, here was this ascetic bunch standing in the desert singing songs, and now, when America is in the middle of a conservative, grim phase, we're sailing on a 40-foot lemon through the middle of it all."
-"The one member of the band who believed we could get somewhere was Adam. He was always talking in terms of record deals, making albums and being on the road. To us that was a joke, but by 1980 we all recognized there was something happening. We didn't understand it for a while. You can call it chemistry, because there is no way to describe what it is when a particular group of musicians is playing together and you get the feeling that there is something special there. There was some kind of spark present when the four of us played together."
-"That's one of the things that attracted me to rock & roll. Initially, there's that feehng of potential, of power, when you strap on an electric gultar. And then you leam that what it's really about is controlling that power. I mean, the guitar has been a big part of rock & roll. I just can't imagine Elvis holding a violin!"
-"The edge is the border between something and nothing. I am not a particularly edgy person, so it is funny."
-"The good thing about this band is that we started out as mates and we still are. We actually see quite a lot of each other when we are on the road in more social situations. We go out to clubs or whatever. It becomes a kind of a family when you are on the road and you end up doing a lot of things with other members of the band or with members of the crew that you particulary seem to klick with. It seems to get you through it. Itīs like a small village that travels around."
-"I think when it loses its humour, rock n' roll can become very boring."
-"It's a very unusual thing to be in a band like this. It's all very well being in a street gang when you're 16, but it's bloody weird when you're 32."
-"It's funny, but even within the space of one song, you can feel the audience come and go. The only thing to do is kick into heavier gear and go for it. Some of our best gigs have been ones that start off badly and then become manic and unpredictable. Heavy but cool is the key."
-"The reason for being in a band initially was purely satisfaction. Having started for that reason, we started writing songs, we started doing things. And our academic careers just went out of the window. Because we suddenly realized that this was important to us."
-EDGE: "I just want to be respected for who I am." OBNOXIOUS WOMAN: "And who are you, Dave Evans?" EDGE: "A Big Rich Famous Rock Star!"
-"He's far funnier, takes himself far less seriously than most people think. He's wild, he's not reserved. None of the cliches that spring to mind when you think of most peoples' perception of him."-Edge on Bono
-"They [U2's parents] are still waiting for us to get proper jobs. I mean its kinda like "Well you were lucky this time, but when are you gonna go back to school and become a doctor?"
-"Oh, I hate to see cows playing tag. Makes you think the hamburger you're eating may have been playing kiss-and-run the day before."
-"I was not going for purity, I was going for the opposite. I was trying to **** up the sound as much as possible, go for something that was definitely messed with, definitely tampered with, had a character that was not just the regular guitar sound."
-"Achtung Baby is definitely a reaction to the myth of U2. We never really had any control over the myth of U2. You could say we helped it along a bit...but there's very little resemblance to the actual personalities of the band."
-"The spinning was pretty hurl-inducing, but I was ok. Not my favorite kind of experience, but sometimes you have to suffer for your art."-Edge on the Elevation video
-"There's nobody to tell you that you're being a complete arsehole... which is maybe what's good about being in a band."
-"I don't particularly like myth, but to me mystery is everything."
-"Don't ever try to reprogram a string section while the support band is playing above your head!"
-"I'm not sure if Irish people can dance... except for The Edge, that is, who is our own funky chicken."--Bono on the Edge
-"The last couple of records we started with shoes. This record we started with Edge's moustache. Theres alot of music you cant play when you've got a guy that looks like Edge in your band."-Bono on the many uses of Edge
-"Edge gets to dress up as an action hero, cause you know that thing about shy people are all really megalomaniacs trapped underneath. I think that's my theory about Edge. In fact, if you notice, he's wearing a number one t-shirt, he was planning to wear a number two t-shirt. And I saw him just, you know, he slipped on the number one. It's little things that give you away."-Bono on the Edge during the making of the Elevation video
-"The Edge is a really, really intense guy, he's got this incredibly high IQ, he's great at sorting out issues of worldly importance, it's just that he forgets the everyday things, like the chords of songs, where he is and so on."-Bono doing Edge's pros and cons in 1983
-"They [U2's parents] weren't always supportive. Like Edges mother, Mrs. Edge we call her, had a little Volkswagen and she was a really cool lady and she would like put all the gear and all the band in the Volkswagen she'd like pick us up at 4am in the morning to take us home and she was out there so that worked. But my old man, when I came home at night, would be waiting at the top of the stairs with a machine gun, several knives, you know it was just target practice."-Bono on Edge's mom
-"A woman needs a man like The Edge needs a handicam"-Bono singing Trying To Throw Your Arms Around the World in concert
- "His [Edge's] gaze drifts off into the air, mentally subdividing God-knows-what complex equation. It turns out he's wondering if right now Larry is finding the fan letter Edge left lying conspicuously in the dressing room. The letter tells Edge that he is 'the best-looking member of U2. Bono has a big nose and Larry looks like an inflatable doll.' Edge got the note in Australia and he plans to keep leaving it out until Larry notices it. 'Bass players attract the weirdest fans,' Edge says. 'I tend to get the bespectacled MIT students. Bono gets the poets. And Larry, unfortunately, gets the girls.' Edge sighs and repeats the old saw: 'We should have gotten a Ringo.' The Beautiful Boy himself enters the cafeteria, showing no signs of having yet seen himself described as inflatable. Edge gets up to collect his mash note for next time."-From U2 At the End of the World
-"Edge is the good-looking boffin with great cheekbones, eyes gentle yet intense at the same time, and a mind that can find a bunch of wires and build a spaceship."-B.P.Fallon describing the Edge
-"Boom then in...cause the Edge is on a completely different timing as usual."-Larry backstage at a concert
-"We've been trying to work out how to get all the Achtung Baby sounds live. Basically we can do it if Edge plays something different with every one of his appendages."
-"Edge your problem is you are too tasteful!"-Bono
-"Phew, the roof for the house in the west of Ireland is looking good. I'll be able to change the car this year after all!"-Edge after they finished recording the song "One"
-"I supposed ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do."
-"'It's obviously being played for a joke,' Larry says, 'and I don't feel right about it.' Edge reaches over and grabs Larry's arm and says, 'It's true, he doesn't feel right.'"
-"Slow down, Bono, I don't want to die!" Edge driving with Bono
