Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.