I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

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.

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

reading books is great, reading pictures much better, especially those that shows you the future

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

I am a giant squid of anger.

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?