[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.

I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.

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

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

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

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.