There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

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

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.

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.