'I have to be myself when I'm singing these songs or I can't sing them.' U2's Bono tells rachelnpr that he has to mix all of his personalities to perform his songs. He talks with Morning Edition about his memoir, 'Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.'
: You write in the book,"If I was in a café right now, and someone said 'Stand up if you're ready to give your life to Jesus,' I'd be the first to my feet." Did your band share your focus, your preoccupation, with faith?." You know, he had just one thing in life, he's a bass player — just wants to be in the bad-ass rock and roll band ... But he stood by me, you know, and stood by us in our devotion.
You write that a lot of U2's music is grounded in the feeling, the emotion, even the structure, of a hymn. With"Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," you say explicitly that in that song, there's some kind of root of that?Sorry, did I not pronounce that right? [Your dad said, near the end of his life, that the most interesting thing about you was your spirituality, was your religion.