I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.

I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for instrumental thinking. But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.