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

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

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.

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.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

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 watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.