I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.

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.

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 can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.