You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.