I love America, and I love living here.
I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.
My whole world changed when Michael Jackson brought out the Bad album when I was about eight or nine. He took over my whole life and from then on I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I watched his videos for hours and learned how to dance like him. I would push back the chairs in the room and learn his dance moves. I even taught myself to moonwalk.
You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.
You only live once, so live a good life!
I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.
The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.
Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.
Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher to try and keep him from putting a rope around my innocent neck? Why, you'd be insane to cause me - to call me violent.
There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.