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.

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.

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 think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

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.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

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