I drink because I'm thirsty.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

You can’t hate people unless you love them.

Everyone drinks..........Well, unless they don't.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition