Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

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

I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

There is a God. God exists.

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.