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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."
Change
"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative
"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."
People
"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
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"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
Imagination
"I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity."
Negativity
"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."
Love
"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
Jazz
"I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever."
Life
"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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