Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo, though I never obviously got into any activities. I was writing 'IRA, Brits out' on walls all over where I grew up, but that was a false sense of Irishness.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.