When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

You can’t hate people unless you love them.

Everyone drinks..........Well, unless they don't.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

You are born to be magical, gorgeous and beautiful inside and out. So express your beauty and fear not.

The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul." *Chiki101*

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.

"Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you."