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

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

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 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.

It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte...If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.