I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

Who designed this world we live in?

I need to know how you did it it. I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter