I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

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

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

[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.