“My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.”
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I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
