When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

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

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

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.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

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.