I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

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.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.