If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.

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.

In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.

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

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

I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

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.