Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have.

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.