You can’t hate people unless you love them.

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.

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.

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

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?

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

You have to prove your success in order to grow.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

I don't really think it will make much difference to me when I'm dead whether I'm read or not . . . just as whether I'm dead or not won't mean much to me when I'm dead.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive