I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.