The girls look like they are a band already - the boys don't

What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't wander down Grafton Street thinking he's Bono.

There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

Christmas is not only where you find it

It is brave to be involved.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.