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.

[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 write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

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.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.