Bono says every U2 member has “thought about walking away” from the band
nme.comU2 frontman Bono has revealed that at some point throughout their career, every member of the band had “thought about walking away”.Speaking on the band’s upcoming Disney+ documentary A Kind Of Homecoming, Bono shared candidly that he had “certainly” entertained the idea of leaving the band, per a Daily Mail report.“I have certainly thought about walking away from U2, every member has.
We have all thought about it,” he said, adding that thinking about leaving was “the right instinct to question whether this should still be going and what it demands of all four members.”Bono would go on to say that he’s stayed due to “the desire to write songs we don’t have yet.
We are chasing the dragon of the song we can’t get.”Daily Mail reports that Bono further reflected on how he had “tested the patience” of his bandmates: “Friendship is deeply part of who we are, but you could lose that along the way.
We had to work on it. If you are in a rock and roll band, you don’t want to be in the photograph with some people who might have polarising opposite values you hold dear, and I did that to them.”“I am turning what we created as a band into currency that I chose to spend in these areas.
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