Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

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.

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.