Mullen's Not Satisfied

Irish Voice, May, 2005 by Farragher, Mike

Farragher, Mike Irish Voice 05-17-2005 DURING their recent stop in the Windy City, the reclusive U2 drummer Larry Mullen Junior sat down with the Chicago Sun Times to discuss what is motivating the biggest band in the world at the moment. "We want to do things that nobody else has done before, and we will do whatever we have to do to achieve that," said Mullen. "We're never satisfied.

We never feel like we've made our greatest record. We always feel we can do better, we can be better, and that's constant. After every record, we sit down and go, 'Okay, what was wrong with that? What was right with it?' "And next time around, we fix it. We constantly do that, and that's why U2 survives. There's a very deep unhappiness in U2, because there's a sense that we...

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