When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

I did my time in the jail of your arms