I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the show feeling like they've seen something singular. It's not about smashing someone over the head from the jump-off.

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.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

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

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

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