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

Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.