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

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

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 don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

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

I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.