You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

I don't really live by plans.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.