You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

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

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

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

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

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.