"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave t…"

"WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners."

"I can't actually play any instrument properly. I can't read music. And here's the New York Times calling me the new G…"

"Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the pri…"

"The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world i…"

"I had a lot of problems with my name … my first name Declan is really not very well known outside of Ireland, MacManu…"

"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past…"

"Obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists…"

"My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history…"

"I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me."