U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I don't like the name, U2, actually.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

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.

To be one, to be united is a great thing but respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.