"James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world."

“You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

“In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Meat Loaf, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2010.

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything”

Source : "Torii Hunter Addresses Police Shooting in Twins HOF Speech". Associated Press, www.usatoday.com. July 16, 2016.

“I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.”

“Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.”

“Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”

“Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.”

Source : Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

“friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there”