Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds. — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
If you want to be Justin Timberlake, go for it. But if you want to be somebody else, go for it but it's usually very hard. You just got to believe in yourself, work hard. I've no advice, I did everything the right and wrong way. You make it up as you go along, but it has to be in… — Gavin Friday Copy Share
What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I love about Red. It's not just a charity, "Give us money, give us money." It's being innovative. Like here's a show that you won't see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you… — Gavin Friday Copy Share
We don't have a long of natural resources as a country; we have a very beautiful country. Visually, I mean, everyone goes on about… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism don't work, but neither does straightforward capitalism. We've got to get a new way of thinking and working. We blew it so there was good and bad about the celtic tiger. But we're tiny. There's four million in the country, do you know what I mean? We're tiny. Four million in a country, how many is in… — Gavin Friday Copy Share
Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger;… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
We became friends in Dublin through music and we had real names, Fionan Hanvey and Derek Rowan - what a dreadful name. And Paul Hewson. We gave each other nicknames just the way most kids do, but the nicknames had more to do with how we physically looked or our essence and I had quite square features as a young… — Gavin Friday Copy Share
My heroes are all dead. I've lots of heroes. My mum is a hero. She had to put up with me and my dad.… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I grew up on a street called Cedar Wood Road and by coincidence my best friends that are around the age 10 became a guy called Bono and another guy called Guggi. It was music again. The fact that pulled us together. They found me quite interesting because I had the right albums underneath my arm. Those days where you… — Gavin Friday Copy Share
The Catholic church had a huge profound influence on me in that as you get older you realize that you can't blame everything; that there is good and bad, and things get misdirected. So I would call myself a black Catholic. I still have this attraction to it because all religions I'm not a fan of. I'm a fan of… — Gavin Friday Copy Share
I think a lot of kids do dream in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of us have become quite well known. So the myth becomes magical. So I tend to sort of see it very practical for me. When I go out for a drink, Bono can buy the pints because he has… — Gavin Friday Copy Share
I really disliked the fact that our Irish culture is what make us and made us and will make us. And when money came… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
