You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.

Let you limitation fuel your determination to work on your strengths.

Authenticity inspires. Just be real.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul. Chloe

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!