If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

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.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

Smile sometimes: it won’t add years to your life, but it will add life to your years.

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.

I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others.