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

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.

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 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.

Do not say but show you care.

Ish #153 "Artificial plants grow best in artificial light.

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable.

Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!

She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.