The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

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.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

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

Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.