I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.