People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

There is a God. God exists.

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.

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.