I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.