There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

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

If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.