There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

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.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

My dad always says that kindness is our religion and if we treat everybody the way we would like to be treated, the world would be a better place.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

So remember this is a bieber world.your just living in it. Bieber or die.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.