2001-02-21 - Los Angeles by REUTERS/Sam Mircovich

"We need from writers some rage, and we need spleen, but we also need the pursuit of truth. And that it's important to rock music to do that. I see it fighting for relevance. And I would like it if writers would step back and look at what we've done like you would hip hop, or you've come from Zanzibar, because there are loads of codified rules and regulations that are suffocating rock music right now." - Bono on rock music, 2005