Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.

I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that's fantastic. He's his own man - good for him. But there aren't many of him out there.

Australians never give up. That's why I love this place. I never give up.

I am a troubadour, a wandering minstrel.

I never had kids, but I married once.

I'm writing a novel about a scallywag who is a bit like me.

I'm not into 'The Voice.' It's an affair between a television network and a record company.

Where are the John Lennons, the Bob Marleys, the Bob Dylans? Where have they gone?

The past is the past: what can you do about it?

I don't think I ever really sold out, and that made a difference.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

I write from the voice in my head.

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.

I keep reminding myself I'm the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.

That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it. Hits don't make great artists.

Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.

I very much enjoy writing about positive, direct emotions.

I felt quite an affinity with 'Rocky' in my career. It's been like 'fight the business' all the way up.

I believe in not sitting down and taking it easy.

All I've ever wanted to do is master my craft. I'm a singer, and I want to be a great singer.

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.

My first two albums, 'Silverbird and 'Just a Boy,' which had the single 'Long Tall Glasses' on it, were very well received. Then I did another one, 'Another Year,' which did miserably.

One of the reasons I had moved to London to pursue my career was that I could go to the clubs in the evening and maybe meet my heroes, people like Donovan and Bert Jansch and Dylan. I actually did see Dylan in a club one night.

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.

Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.

We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.

I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.

I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to do that if the U.K. stays within the Customs Union and the Single Market, because that would take away the need for any special arrangement, or bespoke solution, for Northern Ireland.

I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.

I have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I decided early on to be honest and trust people with the truth.

The Government needs to be honest and straight with people.

Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.

What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that.

It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.

We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.

I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

Whatever happens with Brexit, what I am absolutely convinced will not happen is that free movement of individuals, free movement of people, will not change, North and South without passports.

What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.

I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.