I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.