If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

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.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do.

Just because war is hell doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.