My heroes are all dead. I've lots of heroes. My mum is a hero. She had to put up with me and my dad. She is one of my heroes. Some of my friends are ….

I don't even think any stimulants really help writing. You talk to most guys and they say, "Hey. I wrote this." And they're out of their head or they….

A lot of singers don't really know who they are. They have this massive insecurity and this massive ego and they are sort of pulled between both. I m….

I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man..

I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary as I get older. But I a….

There is a terrible thing that's been happening probably for the last 20 years or so and it's called the music business. And music isn't really busin….

We don't have a long of natural resources as a country; we have a very beautiful country. Visually, I mean, everyone goes on about it's green, it's t….

As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes..

Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing..

Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger; s….

I have shot myself in the foot so many times, I'm crippled. Look, I am not exactly Mr. Great Career Guy. I shoot actually what I think. In a weird wa….

We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like into art and poetry, but we….

If you want to be Justin Timberlake, go for it. But if you want to be somebody else, go for it but it's usually very hard. You just got to believe in….

What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I l….

When people try to take your culture away from you, your essence of your culture becomes stronger. It's like even in Africa. When you see African-Ame….

I think a lot of kids do dream in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of us have become quite well known. So the myt….

I was a child of the '60s basically, which is a real blank. I really started growing up, I think, in the '70s. I'm a glam-rock kid. But Dublin, Irela….

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest writers of the….

My main influences - I loved art. I sounds a little pretentious to say I was into art but I liked drawing. I liked music; music was my outlet from da….

A weird theory I have is we come from a suppressed culture. Ireland is one of the most invaded countries ever. I think the British started it very ea….

My real name isn't Gavin. I was given Gavin Friday by my friends. I'm christened Fionan Hanvey, which is Gaelic and there is no actual English transl….