He told the paper: "When I look at our first 10 years, I just hear unfinished work, lyrics we never finished because we ran out of studio time. I just see a list of failures."
Bono, who aspires to become something of a speech writer, admitted that the opening couplet to one of U2's most popular songs, 'Where The Streets Have No Name', is one of the most banal couplets he's ever heard.