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 didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

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!

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.