If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

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.

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.