We were always dead against the war.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life...It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.