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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.