Bono Quotes

When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I love starting a track in one place and not knowing where it's going to end up.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.