Bono reflects on his 40-year marriage to Ali Hewson - CNN

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Bono’s caller memoir, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” isn’t conscionable astir his clip and travels with U2. It’s astir love.

“I besides wrote the publication to explicate to my household what I was doing with their beingness due to the fact that it was they who permissioned maine to beryllium distant with U2 oregon lobbying Congress,” the vocalist told the Sunday Times Magazine. “Ali gave maine the accidental and covered for maine astatine home. So I’m not penning a rock’n’roll memoir, [or] an activist’s memoir, I’m not conscionable penning a sojourner’s memoir, I’m trying to constitute a emotion missive to my wife.”

Bono and woman Ali Hewson wed successful 1982. He counts her arsenic 1 of his closest friends.

That’s really however the brace met, arsenic puerility schoolhouse chums. Bono calls the pistillate helium shares 4 children with “incredible.”

“She’s not conscionable a enigma to me, by the way. She’s a enigma to her daughters, to her sons,” helium said. “I mean, we’re each trying to get to cognize her. She’s endlessly fascinating. She’s … afloat of mischief.”

Not that it’s each been a furniture of roses.

According to Bono, the mates has weathered immoderate pugnacious times.

“It’s not similar our emotion was absent immoderate acheronian undercurrents oregon briny water, [but] we got each different done those bits wherever it was hard to spot wherever we were,” helium said. “Ali calls it ‘the enactment of love’. I privation she wouldn’t usage the connection ‘work’ due to the fact that I person a feeling there’s an adjective, ‘hard’, that’s inferred.”

“Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” is retired Tuesday.