When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.