I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.