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.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

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.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

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.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O'Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case.