Irish Quotes

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

My first language is Gaelic.

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

I use my voice as an instrument.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

I don't need a man in my life.

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

Fame and success are very different things.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

I can only be who I am.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.