#Bono and Jordan Hewson: A heartfelt father-daughter interview

So who is your favorite? You are definitely a favorite. Made. I have felt sweet creating a better future. Start with a conversation. Moments of connection between generations. Shared experiences. Learned lessons. This is talk to me. We have very different brains. mm-hmm you. my mother died when you were 14 mm-hm, he started you when you were 16 mm-hmm, the Bund was like your first family to you. I've been traveling since my mother passed away, probably since she was 14, meaning she lived alone. with two men, three aggressive Irishmen living in a small house north of Dublin, it wasn't very harmonious and I'm sure I was the root of most of the problems, the house was just not a home for me anymore and for me.

I guess you two became that surrogate family. I'll be honest with you. I only really understood the feeling of home when they entered my life and it still took me a while to return home. Was it a big shock to have children? Especially when you're out, you know, traveling with a big rock band in the '80s. Well, I wasn't the kind of person who would be ready to have a family and settle down, but you probably saved my life. I remember you were born. I remember in detail I was in the recording studio your mother came to pick me up she had packed me a small flask of whiskey a novel I was reading some newspapers she was together when I was recording it was until the last minute I was probably in denial the men experienced a big fear during childbirth because there is nothing they can do normally if someone you love is screaming or you know they are upset, you just hit the person who is making it up, you can't do that.

I have had a great experience. Weird Irish deal with this and I recorded your heartbeat, so I had a little portable recorder and I recorded your heartbeat. I was going to make up a song using your heartbeat as a rhythm and I noticed the art was getting slower so I called a nurse. and I said, look, the heartbeat slows down here, they say, yes, no, don't worry, I said no, no, really, tempo, I understand the tempo and finally I call the doctor I want, ah, ah, so they rushed you into existence, you were so small holding back. they suggested that you should be close to my heart or your mother's heart you were so vulnerable you weighed five pounds so you slept on my chest for two weeks the scariest thing in the world to have this little thing there you were born on my birthday greatest gift i could ever receive make twins cosmic twins but I think it's something they were born for each other I still can't believe you made mom drive herself to the hospital while she was in labor.

I didn't make your mother, she didn't let me drive. She just wouldn't trust me to help you grow and evolve into this role that you've played for me in my life and what you've learned through that experience. They say being in a band is like an extended childhood. I really don't agree. with that because I actually think having friction between equals is pretty mature, that said all the juvenile nonsense through the mafia stays with you so I'm not sure I was the most evolved man. I'm still working on it and your mom is amazing. immediately and I just followed her everywhere did my

father

say when we announced that your mother was praying with you?

He just laughed, he laughed and seemed amazed, he went looking for revenge, the truth is that you were not revenge and you and your sister, the most incredible children, I feel that I have learned to love from you, in reality, which Would you say it is your greatest achievement? I think if celebrity is ridiculous, it's ridiculous because it destroys God's values, so someone like me or a movie star or a sports star. We get paid too much and a nurse or a firefighter is supposed to be normal, but actually that's the other way around, they're actually heroes and we're not, you know, Bjork is a friend and an inspiration and she always says "you." I know a musician in Iceland is like a plumber, he's like a carpenter and we shouldn't see ourselves as anything else, but if a celebrity has anything to offer it's that you can use your celebrity to shed light on issues and shine a spotlight on people whose voices are not heard, I think we have to make a deal with our family and with God about this inequality, so I just live a life that I think is the right life for our family, we try to deal privately with some redistribution of that wealth, but the most important thing I can do is try to fight against the causes of poverty and its structures, they are not simple, that is why I am in a campaign.

I think what offends me the most is the waste of human potential if I had a definition of love it would have something to do with realizing the potential of the people around you. I was a chess player when I was a teenager and I saw a poor little girl sleeping on a park bench and I think she may be a chess champion. and the smoke of athletes and crack, that's what it all comes down to for me, that we can realize each other's potential. You know, when you look at a disease like Mullerian, you think of all the Mozarts, all the Steve Jobs, all the Bill and Melinda Gates, all the brilliant people, we don't know how many of them were lost because of little vaccines or a mosquito net for the bed. .

Not having that, that's probably the essence of Who I am.