Bono and those darn sunglasses

I swear that in about 99% of the current photos that I see of Bono, he's wearing sunglasses. I suppose it's part of his image. He talks about those sunglasses on page 61 of Bono:

Michka Assayas: 'What about your own sunglasses, then? Do you wear them the same way a taxi driver would turn off his front light, so as to signal to God that this rock star is too full of himself and not for hire at the moment?'

Bono: 'Yeah, my insincerity...I have learnt the importance of insincerity, the importance of not being earnest at all times. You don't know what's going on behind those glasses, but God, I can assure you, does.'

My impression of Bono was that he was really arrogant (and I'm sure that he is in a way), but he seems more grounded in his relationship with God the more that I read about him.

Bono, coolness, and God

On page 60-61 of Bono, the U2 singer chats about coolness and God:

Coolness might help in your negotiation with people through the world, maybe, but it is impossible to meet God with sunglasses on. It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw. That's the connection with great music and great art, and that is why it's uncomfortable, that is why cool is the enemy of it, because that's the other reason you wanted to join a band: you wanted to do the cool thing. Trying to capture religious experiences on tape wasn't what you had in mind when you signed up for the job.

For the longest time I tried to be cool, to be someone that I'm not. Life is more fulfilling when I'm just myself, an authentic person -- when I'm more concerned about what God thinks of me than what other people think of me.