All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree-I don`t understand me very much. And I don`t need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

We`re all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it`s not one queen. It`s not one queen with the wings.

When I write a song with the family, the fact is that I am the `little sister`, and my Mammy is there and when it gets to something like sex you start thinking `oh, I`m not supposed to have these thoughts about sex!!`I remember when I first wrote `Runaway`, with that silly line, `make love to me through the night`, and when I first sang it I was turning my face away, knowing my mother was going to say `My God, where did you learn that?!` and then I`d say, `from TV, Mammy!`

I love watching people, and that`s what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o`clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they`re talking about.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

People are so busy anyway they don`t see you or recognise you in the street.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn`t, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven`t hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It`s part of our culture. I like drinking. I don`t think it`s a bad thing.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual`s suffering?

I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I`ve felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you`re a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it`s gone.

Years go by and people are together, but there was an individual there for 26 years, or whatever, who was absolutely fine, coping without you.

Music is sexy, music is sensual. And an expression of yourself and that side of you comes out sometimes. I know I can be like that on stage but it`s innocent. I don`t do anything I just get into it, feel it.

I really love singing.