I have a habit of playing to U2’s weaknesses, trying to make these weaknesses our strength. Was that what our 1990s had been about? Now it was time to make a record which played to our strengths, which did the things we can do that no one else can do. The things I can do that other people find a little difficult. A certain emotional candor, the uncool stuff. Brian Eno above all else believed that U2 should never surrender to cool. In terms of our emotional temperature, he told us, our music was hot, more southern than northern European. Yours is like Latin music, he’d say, the Mass, the opera,
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