Bono's in town today, in his celebrity activist/statesman mode, to pick up the Liberty Medal for himself and DATA at the Constitution Center. The interview's here. Besides his love for the Declaration of Independence, and the Founding Fathers, who he admires, among other reasons, because "they committed an act of treason," and Thomas Jefferson, who he called "a Romantic figure. Keatsian. And he drank a lot of wine!" he also said this about U2's early days: "Philadelphia and Boston were on us before New York. We used to meet Bruce Springsteen and he would tell us: "If it's going off for you in Philadelphia, then it's really going off. 'Cause that's the place. They really know music."
And for a reminder that he's more than just a never-stops-talking head, here's a clip from the 1997 PopMart tour in Mexico City, which is just out on DVD.
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