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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.
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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.
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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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.
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