My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

I hated the royal wedding.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.