My biggest blast-off hit was "You Raise Me Up." If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

I'm the depresso guy on holidays.

Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.