The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Renew yourself with love. Wash away all the fear, hatred and societal conformity to create a brand new humanity filled with love, kindness and happiness.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.