Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.

I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.