'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

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.