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 wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

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