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.

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.

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.

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.