He’s normally quite private when it comes to his personal life, but Bono now has opened up about his relationship with wife Ali Hewson.
The U2 frontman, who is currently promoting the band’s new album Songs of Innocence, said love is the most important thing in his life.
“All I know and all I need to know is there is no end to love.”
“I hold on to people very tightly who I think can get me through… Ali is also one of those people. I hold on to her much more tightly than she holds on to me,” he said.
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And even though the couple spend a lot of time apart – with Bono touring and travelling the world, the singer said absence makes the heart go fonder.
“When we’re leaving for tour, my family is in very good humour which is a real worry because I’m thinking, ‘Can’t you cry?’
“My missus has been playing hard to get for quite a while now and she’s an elusive character,” he told the Irish Mirror.
“She’s not easy to get to know and other people’s praise holds not much sway for her.”
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“She’s a very independent, smart kind of girl who, I think, sees me as a figure of amusement. Most of the time, I enjoy her company,” he explained.
“I’m going home to see her and I’m very excited about that. It feels as if absence seems
to work very well for her, if not for me.”
The Dublin star. who recently attended George Clooney’s Italian wedding, added that he is a “weak” person but surrounding himself with people he loves helps him to be strong.
“I’m a weak, flawed person. I have a wild side. A different version of myself would be sleeping on the beach, or worse, floating out to sea,” he said.
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“I’m an experimental character. A lot of people I grew up with have had difficult outcomes but I have a strong sense of survival which is why I hold on to people.”
‘This band is a kind of marriage,” he explained.
