No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
It’s all complete instinct and intuition, and that’s extremely difficult to teach.
Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That’s what I apply to everything.
Hearing the blues changed my life.
I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you’ve forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.
And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic.
I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
I’ve got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
I’m not a rock singer and I don’t want to be a rock singer. I’m not interested. It doesn’t seem to get across.
You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.
Singing is my profession – there is no plan B.
I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it’s me.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn’t there before that.