The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.
Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.
I didn't start playing music really until I was 1819, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.
Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.
I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.
I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.