I am Melle's lack of sleep.

[bubosquared]

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, live like there is no tomorrow, dance like no one is watching.
(Bono)

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
(Bono)

You have no choice of subject matter. You write what's in your heart and on your mind--unless of course it's crap, in which case it means you've thought about it too much.
(Bono)

Making love involves two people, having sex only involves one.
(Adam)

All the women are gorgeous and all the men are gay. If you can't pull tonight, you're hopeless.
(Adam, on the set of the Mysterious Ways video)

We've been trying to work out how to get all the Achtung Baby sounds live. Basically we can do it if Edge plays something different with every one of his appendages.
(Bono)

I think it's the spiritual strength that's essential to the band. People have got to find their own way. I'm not into standing up and saying, "Hey, you should be into God!" My own life is exhilarating through an experience I feel, and I feel there's no point in talking about something which should be there in your life anyway. You don't have to preach about it.
(Bono) (I like this one, it reflects my own feelings towards my faith.)

Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
(Adam)

- If a Martian landed and was introduced to you and asked you what do you do, what would you say?
- I simulate love-making by beating a piece of wood with a metal wire on which it vibrates.
(Interviewer, Adam)

You see Larry, you let an outsider taste your food for you. I'm not jealous, but if you need someone to eat off your plate you should always go to your bass player.
(Adam)

My earliest memory of Larry was when we were starting off. We were at our first rehearsal in his kitchen and all these girls kept climbing over the walls and looking in the window at Larry. Larry just shouted at them and told them to go away. And then turned the hose on them! Larry likes to play drums.
(Bono )

I could tell stories of the times each of the others has been there for me. I mean there have been periods when Adam and I didn't particularly get along, over the years. Yet when I left Aislinn I moved into Adam's.
(Edge)

Adam was just getting people to do him up in the back and swapping makeup tips with any girl that passed. You know suddenly he could own up to being interested in their underwear!
(Bono)

I met Adam and I got so excited when I saw him casue he had bushy blonde hair and the tinted glasses and a really long afghan coat with all the beads and all the gear and he just looked so cool. I said "I want to be in a band with him."
(Larry)

It's saying, 'We are one, but we're not the same.' It's not saying we even want to get along, but that we have to get along together in this world if it is to survive. It's a reminder that we have no choice.
(Bono, re One)

They were by nature truth-tellers, and Bono was by nature a big mouth.
(Flanagan, re U2)

Larry always knows who Larry is because Larry never changes. You haven't changed your haircut in ten years!
(Bono)

It's a real drag if you don't like yourself, 'cos you do spend a lot of time with yourself
(Edge)

The first night Edge was in a cloud of dry ice when he got out of the lemon and I couldn't see him, but I knew he wasn't playing his guitar when he should have been. And I didn't know what to do exactly. And then I just heard this giggling. He was laughing his head off. I caught him through the fog. There is just a smidgen of (Spinal Tap's) Derek Smalls about him at the moment. But listen, that's balls. Brazen hussies we are. There's not another rock band in the world -- maybe because they're too smart to -- who would dare to do that. And I'm telling ya, that's it for me.
(Bono)

Fribetarians believe that when they die their soul goes up on the roof, and they can't get it down.
(Bono)

There is a love between the members of this band that is deeper than whatever comes between us. After almost 15 years, which would be time for a divorce in almost any relationship, we looked at each other and said "lay down your arms."
(Larry) (Can someone figure out what he's saying?)

I'm a believer in God, but that doesn't mean I don't get angry
(Bono)

It's an amazing feeling to be able to do what you want, when you want. And that is, you don't have to kiss ass, you know the feeling? There's a lot of people out there that have to kiss ass everyday, every week - just to make, you know, a buck. Just to... and I don't. I have to kiss Edge's ass occasionally, maybe Larry, but you know...
(Bono)

I can't quite remember whose idea it was. All I know is that Larry looked like some sort of porn star, Edge looked like his sister Jill, Adam hasn't taken the dress off, and I looked like Barbara Bush.
(Bono, re drag)

I remember when he was about 3, only a toddler. He was out in the back garden. He went over to a flower with a bee. He put it on his finger, lifted the bee up, talked to the bee, and put it back again. He probably doesn't remember it, I don't think I ever mentioned it, but I can remember to this day the horror of my wife and myself. He could go from flower to flower picking up bees and never got stung. Amazing, isn't it?
(Bono's dad, re Bono)

The funny thing about Larry is that, ok he got into the dress and put on the makeup but he was fighting with it. He wouldn't take off his Doc Martens and when he was sitting he'd put his feet up on the table. But as macho as he tried to be he still looked like some extra in a skin flick. That was the irony.
(Bono)

A good reason to do passengers- get Larry to move out of the left side of his brain for a minute.
(Bono)

Bono, if you still haven't found what you're looking for, look behind the drum kit.
(Boy George)

I fancy the drummer in U2! Every time I hear Bono sing 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for,' I feel like shouting, "Turn around!"
(Boy George)

In the song 'With or Without You' when it says 'and you give yourself away' - everybody else in the group knows what that means. It's about how I feel in U2 at times - exposed.
(Bono)

I have a terrible habit of finding really unimportant, trivial, manual things to do. I'll go mow the lawn, or find some piece of furniture that needs varnishing, or...paint the cat.
(Edge)

Oh, I hate to see cows playing tag. Makes you think the hamburger you're eating may have been playing kiss-and-run the day before.
(Edge)

I don't know what will happen to Hanson when their voices break.
(Adam)

I think one of the things I found difficult in the eighties was this din of voices telling me "You can't fly, arsehole."
(Bono)

The good thing about this band is that we started out as mates and we still are. We actually see quite a lot of each other when we are on the road in more social situations. We go out to clubs or whatever. It becomes a kind of a family when you are on the road and you end up doing a lot of things with other members of the band or with members of the crew that you particulary seem to klick with. It seems to get you through it. It´s like a small village that travels around.
(Edge)

After introducing these beautiful women to my wife they all lost interest in me! They're her friends now.
(Bono)

Larry's always been noticed 'cause he's the pretty one.
(Adam)

That's all, folks

Comments

[antigone921.livejournal.com]

There is a love between the members of this band that is deeper than whatever comes between us. After almost 15 years, which would be time for a divorce in almost any relationship, we looked at each other and said "lay down your arms."
(Larry) (Can someone figure out what he's saying?)

The first thing that came to my mind was the song "Soldier of Love":

Lay down your arms of love
And surrender to me.
Lay down your arms of love
And love me peacefully, yeah.
Use your arms for loving me,
Baby, that's the way it's got to be.

But I think he just meant the "laying down your weapons" metaphor and not the song.

Damn.

And I love the Boy George quotes. Hee!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Boy George is a slasher!

*falls over laughing*

Er, yeah. I clearly need sleep, yo.