I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

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.

Fear trumps empathy.

Women can't forgive failure.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.