I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

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.

I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.