For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Let your soul and spirit fly.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.

Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.