I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.