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.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

There is a God. God exists.

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.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

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