I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Men fear most what they cannot see.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

I don't know who my grandfather was

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.