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It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.