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.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.