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

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.

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

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!!!

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.

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

...but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

Ignoring the question is not the solution of problem, Same as forgetting the sorrow isn't happiness

Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I live life and I don't take it for granted.