When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only distance out of the closet I really want to come there is having my tattoo or wearing my t-shirt.

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

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

I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.