My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

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I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

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