I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

When we sing a song we give our soul a cuddle

My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.