I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

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.

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

Saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

Stretch your mind and be very kind. Stress will melt away and life will be fine.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.