The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

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

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.

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.

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.

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