I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

It's not what you got, but what you gave.

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...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Americans have discovered fear.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.