I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.