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I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

It's really hard to name a band.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.