"Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt"

"Cut the kids in half"

"We're not scare-mongering This is really happening"

"I'm not here This isn't happening"

"That there That's not me I go Where I please I walk through walls I float down the Liffey"

"Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on"

"What was that you tried to say?"

"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon"

"The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change"

"I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises"

"CLIMBING UP THE WALLS!! AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGHH!"

"When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet"

"Dont get sentimental, It always ends up drivel."

"At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape"

"For a minute there I lost myself"

"Karma police I've given all I can It's not enough I've given all I can But we're still on the payroll"

"And you can laugh A spineless laugh We hope your rules and wisdom choke you And now we are one In everlasting peace We hope that you choke, that you choke"

"Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets"

"I live in a town, where you can't smell a thing"

"God loves his children"

"Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy"

"In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life"

"In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe"

"Immerse your soul in love"

"Rows of houses, all bearing down on me, I can feel their blue hands touching me, All these things into position, All these things we'll one day swallow whole. And fade out again, And fade out..."

"You do it to yourself, you do, And that's why it really hurts, Is you do it to yourself, just you, You and no-one else, You do it to yourself."

"She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran."

"He used to do surgery On girls in the eighties, But gravity always wins."

"Her green plastic watering can For a fake Chinese rubber plant In the fake plastic earth."

"Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love."

"I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race,"

"I am fused, just in case I blow out. I am glued, just in case I crack out."

"I'm not a vegetable, I will not control myself."

"I don't care if it hurts. I wanna have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. I want you to notice When I'm not around. You're so fuckin' special;>br>I wish I was special."

"When you were here before, Couldn't look you in the eye. You're just like an angel, Your skin makes me cry. You float like a feather In a beautiful world. I wish I was special; You're so fuckin' specialBut I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doing here I don't belong here"

""So far, this is disco." - Live performance of Everything in Its Right Place (YouTube video)"

""They're dangerous people, and what's really frightening is that they don't know it, they don't see themselves as dangerous... they see the danger elsewhere. The danger is always elsewhere. How convenient." source"

""People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere. We’re not going to sit around and wait and just be happy if something turns up. We are ambitious. You have to be." (in his first-ever interview, 1991) source"

""Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it." source"

"I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state."

"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."

""Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic. But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned. I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines." - source"

"It's basically [about] having to make a decision whether to do nothing or try to engage with it in some way, knowing that it's flawed. It's convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say they're a hypocrite. It's a lot easier to do that than actually do anything else. And yeah, that stresses me out, because I am a hypocrite. As we all are."

""The thing that worries me about the computer age is the fact that people know so much about you. It's an incredible invasion of privacy. And no matter where you are in the world people can monitor you if you're using your credit card. I heard this weird rumor on the Internet about how the military is funding this great big research project and basically, they believe that in the future, the balance of power won't be determined by who has the most nuclear weapons, but by who has all the information. I'm not afraid of being taken over by computers though, because the thing is, computers cannot resist. You can always smash 'em up, and they're totally defenseless. All we need are more people with hammers." - source"

""The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses." - source"