I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Inherent within your soul is a greater light, recognize and radiate it.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.