Matthew Bird

“On Achtung Baby U2 took conventional tracks and radicalized them; on this material U2 is taking radical tracks and covering them with a veneer of convention.”
― Bill Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World

“Both Bellcore (the Bell Telephone research company in Livingstone, New Jersey) and Philips (the company that owns Polygram, U2’s label) have set up crude working prototypes of home music delivery systems by hooking up recordable CD players to fiber-optic telephone lines.”
― Bill Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World

“Suddenly Joan was terrified. She would fail at this. He would scoff at her and lose interest, and then Sander would also scoff, to stay in Bacon’s good graces, so that Bacon would continue to seek patrons for him. They shared entire worlds she had no entry to, and never would: cabals and social circles Sander was welcomed into because he was the celebrated boy-actor, because he ravished and was ravished by those who granted entry to those circles, because he was ambitious to maintain his elevated status. A month ago she’d have been nervous only for losing the opportunity to study with Francis Bacon but now she feared losing Sander.”
― Nicole galland, Boy

“Human beings are not just what they do, but who they are. A lot of my life is about what I'm doing.”
― Bono, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas