Bono
Bono
Paul David Hewson, known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, frequently using religious, social, and political themes. During U2's early years, his lyrics contributed to...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth10 May 1960
CityGlasnevin, Ireland
CountryIreland
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.
If I don't understand it, it must be art.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.