Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom "White City

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

You can’t hate people unless you love them.

Everyone drinks..........Well, unless they don't.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Expression is the dress of thought.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.