The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.

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.

Neglect of women is the major cause for the society’s downfall.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.

I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.