My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.