I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

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.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

In communication, you get back what you send out.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.