I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

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