can’t change the world but I can change the world in me.

Bono Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
Also known as: Paul David Hewson, Bono Vox
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Paul David Hewson, KBE, OL (born 10 May 1960) is an Irish musician and social activist, who after being nicknamed Bono Vox, became famous as the lead singer of the Irish rock band, U2 using the stage name Bono.

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It was a line on our second album, October, that led from one record to the other. In 1981, a young man, I’d sung, “I can’t change the world but I can change the world in me.” Now, in my fifties, I found myself writing something different: “I can change the world, but I can’t change the world in me.

The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.