In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.