I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

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.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices

To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.

This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.