There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

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

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

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.