I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought and its first reaction is one of anger.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.