What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.

[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.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

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

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.