My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

You can’t hate people unless you love them.

Everyone drinks..........Well, unless they don't.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

I create neo-surreal gardens with my paint brush

I’ve learnt that eyes don't change. No matter how old or beat up you get, your eyes stay the same.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.