I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

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.

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

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.

I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.

I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.