I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.