Geographically Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke drink or do drugs and I'm not married that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people but you can't be two people. Instead you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Middle-aged women have greater stability they are more loyal and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

What we women need to do instead of worrying about what we don't have is just love what we do have.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

As a parent and a citizen I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

My wedding was at home so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches actually designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

New terms used like 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug Where everyone kisses and everyone grins and everyone cuddles and everyone wins.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies instead of indemnifying losses.

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth because the truth is that I am fat and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat I agree whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Live truth instead of professing it.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not we cry.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.

Too often travel instead of broadening the mind merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel instead of broadening the mind often merely lengthens the conversation.

When you're an artist there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love you're just depressed so you don't move so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.