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

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture.

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.