"There's nobody to tell you that you're being a complete arsehole- which is maybe what's good about being in a band."

Edge on Pop: "We believe in trash, we believe in kitsch and that's what we're up to at the moment."

"Achtung Baby is definitely a reaction to the myth of U2. We never really had any control over the myth of U2. You could say we helped it along a bit...but there's very little resemblance to the actual personalities of the band."

Edge on his sound: "I was not going for purity, I was going for the opposite. I was trying to fuck up the sound as much as possible, go for something that was definitely messed with, definitely tampered with, had a character that was not just the regular guitar sound."

"I think that U2 has a lot of great records left. I think we're good for another ten years at least." (he said this in 1992, mind you).

Edge on Bono: "He's far funnier, takes himself far less seriously than most people think. He's wild, he's not reserved. None of the cliches that spring to mind when you think of most peoples' perception of him."

"A woman needs a man like The Edge needs a handicam, when you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world"-Bono (in concert)

When asked what he'd like to have that he doesn't: "A clone. A clone with good timing so I could send him off to do all the things that I can't do."

"I think when it loses its humour, rock n' roll can become very boring."

When asked what he does when he returns home after a tour: "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."

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