All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

Shower the people you love with love.

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.