Don't Waste A Note - Or A Word - On Fools

"Singers, more than other musicians, depend on what they know — as opposed to what they don’t want to know about the world. While there is a danger in this — the loss of naïveté, for instance, which holds its own certain power — interpretive skills generally gain in the course of a life well abused."

-- Bono, discussing things he's learned from his friend, the late great Frank Sinatra (“I don’t usually hang with men who wear earrings.”) and the supreme, and singular, art they share with TMR - singing - for The New York Times.