My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

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.

We could visit him, " suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.