I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.

Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.

In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.