Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah!….

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in….

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person..

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily..

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship..

You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with..

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this b….

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid..

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds..

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them..

I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback..

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic..

I think the consistency comes from the parts..

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly..

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it..