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

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

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.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.