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

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?