"I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself."

"There is always something rather absurd about the past"

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

"I think we agree, the past is over."

"I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong."

"Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do."

"I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write."

"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."

"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."

"When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years."

"I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material."

"Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?"

"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."

"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."

"My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now."

"My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me."

"I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder."

"I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it."

"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."

"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."