Dan Martin, The Gospel According to U2 - Part Two [Bono interview], NME, 5-01-2005.
«[Bono]: I wanted to check where I was to where I am. So I went back and listened to all the music that made me want to be in a band, right from the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, all that stuff. And what was interesting is, that was what a lot of people in bands now are listening to anyway. So in a funny way, it made us completely contemporary."»
Elvis Costello, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Bono and The Edge of U2, Sundance Channel, 9 dicembre 2009.
«[The Edge]: I think we were influenced a lot by music that was rooted in Europe, the German sort of sensibility, the music of Neu! and Kraftwerk, which was about a different sort of way of using chord changes and a sort of nihilistic approach to the backbeat", "and the UK bands", "like [Siouxsie and] the Banshees, probably Echo & the Bunnymen" "and Magazine"»
