"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…"

"When the media attention switches away from this story onto the next thing that happens in the world, the circumstanc…"

"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…"

"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."