You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy – you can be arrested for it. It’s risky asking people for money in public. So it’s not like it’s a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you’re actually satisfied with.

I’m not an actor, and I’ll never call myself an actor. I’ve never thought of it as part of my life. I’ll always be a singer, in my eyes.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They’re not like an intellectual decision. It’s a collection of your kind of musings.

I just didn’t realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you’ll ever meet again.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you’re part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It’s just so humbling.

I won’t say I’ve closed the door on acting.

I think inside every rock journalist, there’s somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they’re not, and that they’re writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there’s a wish for happiness.