The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

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.

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.