I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.

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.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.

My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.

I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.