{"id":96,"date":"2006-11-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2006\/11\/bono-tonight-on-hbo.html"},"modified":"2006-11-25T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:01:00","slug":"bono-tonight-on-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2006\/11\/bono-tonight-on-hbo.html","title":{"rendered":"Bono tonight on HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the debut of a new HBO series called “Off the Record”<\/a> which is, of course, not off the record, Dave Stewart<\/a> (formerly of the Eurythmics) interviewed Bono<\/a> and The Edge<\/a> about… well… being Bono and The Edge. In the midst of it, Stewart asks Bono about whether he feels like God is behind his lyrics. Bono responds:<\/p>\n

“We’ve all heard singers and musicians go, ‘I’m just a force for God and God uses me,’ and I’m just thinking, Could God have written all of these crap songs?”<\/p>\n

He then went on saying that he tries to step aside and to take the song’s journey and that if in that process he meets God, well then, well done. I love that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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