Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.