My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.