I usually EAT in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I GO there for a very large plate of beef in red WINE sauce.

At SCHOOL I was ALWAYS TRYING to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports INSTEAD of writing them.

I THINK the great COUNTRY songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little BIT of a ROCK vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

If you GO out to HOLLYWOOD you'll find a lot of FANTASTIC plastic people there in the BUSINESS and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

A LOSING TRADE, I assure you, SIR: LITERATURE is a DRUG.

Sex keeps me in shape. I don't DIET, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I SMOKE and drink. But I love RUNNING off in the MIDDLE of the DAY to make love. It really burns up calories.

Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in CONSTRUCTION sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad SAID that it's important in the future that when we TELL people to dig a HOLE, that you PERSONALLY know how long it will take to dig that hole.

I NEVER THOUGHT I'd PLAY BASKETBALL in CHINA.

I think I'm in a REALLY NICE position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but RIGHT now the MAIN thing in my mind is writing SONGS.

You have to GET to KNOW your VOICE and its strengths and play on those. It took me QUITE a long TIME.