Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

Inside everybody's hiding something.

It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.