Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

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.

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.