My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

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.

If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

TV is not a baby sitter.

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.