Bono swears he’ll keep it clean on TV

The U.S. government can relax. Irish rock star Bono promises he will not swear again on live television if he wins a Golden Globe Award on Sunday.

At last year’s ceremony, the U2 frontman uttered an obscenity when accepting his award, an outburst that has prompted U.S. lawmakers to talk about cracking down on the use of foul language on air.

“I swear I won’t swear,” the U2 frontman told Reuters in an interview at his West Hollywood hotel. “You can always cause a stir with an expletive, and it’s not something that I’m conscious of. If you use them in your everyday speech, sometimes they will come out. I don’t mean to offend anyone.”

Bono, along with Dublin pals Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer, is nominated in the best original song category for “Time Enough for Tears.” U2 won the Golden Globe last year for a song the band wrote for the Martin Scorsese movie “Gangs of New York.”