I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that appreciative of what was going on, or thinking about documenting life in a plainspoken manner. I was talking about my life and writing songs, but then I would go back and listen and they were about dreams, and legends, and metaphors and that was just not my life!

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.