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

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.

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.

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.

I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.