I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

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.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.