I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

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.

Life don't owe you nothing.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

You must radiate success before it’ll come to you.

I know a lot of people that still buy comics, go to the shop every week, I know people who read them on an iPad. My brother reads on an iPad every week, he downloads his comics every week.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

If a company can declare bankruptcy, why can't a country do so?

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.