In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

The same feeling you get from succeeding is the same feeling I get from failing, now imagine what happens when I win.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.

My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

Meditation means seeing God within you, and love is seeing God in the person next to you.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.