My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

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

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

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

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.