What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

- Shane Macgowan

I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail agains…

- Shane Macgowan

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

- Shane Macgowan

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

- Shane Macgowan

There have been many happy days and many unhappy ones in my life, but the most important was the day I met my missus, who is sometimes estranged and …

- Shane Macgowan

You can’t hate people unless you love them.

- Shane Macgowan

Everyone drinks..........Well, unless they don't.

- Shane Macgowan

Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also han…

- Shane Macgowan

I drink because I'm thirsty.

- Shane Macgowan