Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.