The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.