A Harvest For The Word

Are we talking power nostril here? The left, definitely. The right s the supersub
::: Liam Gallagher on his favoured left nostril

He makes Leonard Cohen look like Boyzone.
::: Jack L on Dr Millar

The house was like a bad advert for drugs. Fucking hell, man. There was a seventeen foot fishtank in one wall with one fish in it.
::: Noel Gallagher regrets the excesses of Supernova Heights

It s a bit like having a wank. You put as much into it as you can, you don t necessarily think about the next one.
::: Nigel Kennedy on playing live

The figures for heterosexual AIDS in Ireland are totally fraudulent. AIDS is not an equal opportunities infection; it is almost exclusively a disease that s transmitted between men.
::: Paddy O Gorman

Gloria wasn t one of my best songs. That was, like, throwaway. It s like Brown Eyed Girl .
::: Van Morrison

I think people loving each other is a kind of miracle. I think it s against all the odds, and that everything in the world conspires against that.
::: Bono

The A&R people thought that because REO Speedforeigner were Number One in America, we should be copying em, but no fucker was getting me into spandex.
::: Brian Johnson on mid-80s life in AC/DC

I met Ewan McGregor in Australia. He comes backstage and he s hugging everybody, and I pull my pants down, he pulls his pants down He was just a regular idiot like myself.
::: Moby (of all people)

St Patrick!? What s the fucking story? This fucker comes over from Wales or wherever and, of course, they don t want him and we say, oh, very good! . St Patrick was like an early David Gray in that respect.
::: Ding Dong Denny O Reilly

I had to give my daughter up for adoption. Because of poverty. Not having the money to feed and clothe her, and put a roof over her head.
::: Joni Mitchell

It s not something where you wake up one morning and say, oh fantastic, I m gay. Where s the next Gay Pride on .
::: Cork councillor Peter Kelly on his
homosexuality

Are you saying that my tits are small?
::: Dolores O Riordan responds to Sensitive Stuart Clark s question: I guess you d never consider getting a boob job?

You ve just got to laugh at the industry in Ireland s attitude: Ronan Keating is great! He is a voice for us! or The Corrs are brilliant . No, they re not. They re shit.
::: Niall McCormack, Jubilee Allstars

I did a few lines of coke and it gave me a zip for a while.
::: The Chieftains Kevin Conneff

John McColgan and Moya Doherty told me a year ago that I started the idea of Riverdance.
::: Paddy Moloney

The seat broke. It exploded. The plastic just broke into daggers. They were pointing straight up. I was very, very lucky.
::: Eddie Irvine on the perils of toilet-based sex

I don t mind Ian Brown lookalikes. I d rather they looked up to me than Elton John.
::: Ian Brown

It will change the religious face of this country, the political face of this country, everything. It can be a gift if we are willing to see it that way.
::: Siniad O Connor on immigration

So much talent and genius very poorly availed of. Of course, they re scattered all over now, like the wandering tribes of Israel. We were part of a lovely vanished world.
::: Con Houlihan on The Irish Press

We (the Irish) are a filthy, dirty people. I think we treat the public realm like shit.
::: Author and Irish Times journalist Frank McDonald

We arrived at one venue and there was a huge sign outside: tonite: barbecue ribs sold out. David Gray 8 o clock .
::: David Gray on the pre-success days

He ll be even better when he puts on some weight and his voice breaks!
::: Patrick Bergin on Pierce Brosnan

At some point in the future the penny will drop, and these artists who are pro-Napster will go, Oh dear, we ve been very stupid .
::: Corrs manager John Hughes

Our main target wasn t to destroy whitebread America, it was to destroy the niggardliness in black people, get them to stand up and be real men and women.
::: Professor Griff, Public Enemy

My auntie bought the album this week and rang up my mum to say she was really moved by it.
::: Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn Boy

While it s quite possible to say that your first five or ten joints or your first five or ten whiskeys or your first five or ten of anything, may produce interesting and illuminating insights, it s very difficult to see what the next five or ten thousand add to that insight.
::: Will Self

The secret of our success is sticking to gay drugs. It s quite simple ketamine makes you horny, heroin makes your dick shrivel up.
::: Jimmy Pop, Bloodhound Gang

We didn t have much interest in being part of that clique of local heroes . You get to a certain point and then that s it.
::: Hillary Woods, JJ72

Nobody in RTE is subversive. Even Gerry Ryan, who claims to be the voice of rebellion in RTE. He s about as subversive as Delia Smith.
::: VIP and Now publisher, John Ryan

A small amount of people are making fucking fortunes. While film students are going around, begging for a few grand to finish their films.
::: Brendan O Carroll on the Irish film industry.

I couldn t listen to guitar music anymore, it was like bloody wallpaper to me.
::: Thom Yorke

I d never pass judgement on Charlie Haughey. I owe him we owe him a lot.
::: Bono

I don t want to do a James Bond where I have to be politically correct. I want to slap a girl on the bottom and go, THAT S NICE, LUV, get your knickers on and make me a cup of tea .
::: Robbie Williams

A lot of people say to me, oh, this is your first record of love songs . No. Every song I ve ever written is a love song.
::: PJ Harvey

I wouldn't be that studpid as to go to bed with every person I feel attracted to. but I guess I m a bit of a slut as well
::: Siniad O Connor

"I ve urges like every single other guy has on the planet, in terms of wanting to make love to women, but my brain is certainly not ruled by my penis."
::: Jim Corr on the dynamics of his trousers

We ve all gone to bed with mad women, haven t we?
::: Kevin Myers

"It s like sex, it s the closest thing to the divine you can be."
::: Jonathan Rhys-Myers on the joys of acting

"I m tired of being a Smashing Pumpkin in the public end of the world, you know? I don t want to have to answer questions about seven years ago. I don t want to be that guy anymore."
::: Billy Corgan

"It s absolutely pathetic. What would I be doing this for if that was the way I felt? God, what a pathetic character they
sometimes portray."
::: Andrea Corr denies that she d "give it all up for love."

I can t live with acquiescence. I can t make peace
with me or the world. I just can t.
::: Bono