I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

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.

Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.