That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

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.

The carcass was still warm - barely a few minutes dead, with the blood clotting on the ugly wound on its head where Pinchez had bashed it in with a brick.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.