Petitions are ridiculous.

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.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.

If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.

And the dusk in my heartBecomes lightWhen youLook toward me…

One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The validity of physical theorems is founded on this repeatability.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

People are like that, judging you before they know you.