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

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

I drink because I'm thirsty.

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?

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

Love insists the loved loves back

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.