You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

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.

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

I am here not to let you fall alone, suffocate alone, quit life easy. I'll fight the fate for you and with you.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.