This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

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

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.