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

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

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