All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.