I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

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

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.