When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

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.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.