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 mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.
But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
