I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

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.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

With love, nothing is impossible.

All times are determined by God.

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

No man of God does something against the Lord

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.