When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music wa….

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of tim….

Nobody gets between me and my microphone..

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about ea….

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple..

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea..

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire..

Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. ….

I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person..

Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewis….

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on..

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock ….

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion..

I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it..

God is something that needs rescuing from religion..

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you..

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars..

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave..

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all..

In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David….

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like..