The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

I joined a band to hit things.

I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

Time served does not guarantee maturity.

Slurring is the cursive of speech.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.