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As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

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Topics: Getting Ghetto Hard Hip-Hop Looking Music Out Pop Pop Music Rock Sound Sound Of Music While

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

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Topics: Actually Like Name U2

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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

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Topics: Actually Always Associate Call Come Doing Ever Father Know Like Me Occasionally Only Paul People Person Something Street Themselves Try Up Who Will Wrong You

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I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

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Topics: Always Earliest Head Heard Kind Know Melodies Melody Memory Up Used Waking Waking Up You

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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

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Topics: Christian Entered Few Grace Idea Last Like Most Most Powerful Powerful Reason Thousand Thousand Years World Would Years

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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

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Topics: Album Always Artists Beatles Closest Concept Easy Go Great Great Music Many Moment Music Off Pop Rolling Rolling Stones Stay Stones Us Want Were Would U2

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I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

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Topics: Because Celebrity Go Home Ireland Live Lot Might Missing Radar Whole Year

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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

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Topics: Catholic Good Guilt Pretty Pretty Good Put Rich Rock Rock Star Star Work

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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

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Topics: Christians Contemporary Different Fervent Interface Language Languages Learned Live Lot People Some Speak Sure Term Think Tongues Various Very Would I Think I Have Learned I Can

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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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Topics: Awful Convictions Dangerous End Gray In The End Just Just Kind Kind Mass Them Without World

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Musician

Born: May 10th, 1960

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