Bono Quotes

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.

I wake up every day, make awesome music with awesome people, and tour the world, which is incredible.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.

When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.