Bono: 'Poverty Work Makes Me Appreciate U2'

U2 frontman Bono says that all of his political work and campaigning has really helped him appreciate being in a band.

Asked what would be easiest to give up – poverty work or U2 – the Bono struggled to give a definitive answer, but he did say his campaigning has heightens his enjoyment of U2 when he’s with the band.

The 47-year-old said: “I can't live without music. I don't think I physically could live without music, because it's the thing that allows me to feel normal. It's like asking a psychotic person to do without their lithium, OK?”

He continued to The Rolling Stone: “I've spent a lot of time in these two-dimensional worlds - numbers, values, analysis of statistics. And when I get away from it, being with U2 is such a playground. It's made me realize how sacred music is. It's a kind of sacrament - like marriage, like friendship.

“I'm not sure the other three in the band know this, because they - maybe sensibly - have avoided that other world. They just think they're in U2, and that's great. But I really know how great it is to be in U2.”