What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I’ll get back to you once I’ve completed the equation.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
The confused bystander in any given situation.
Which living person do you most admire?
My parents.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Jealousy and my lack of a pun filter.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Rent.
What is your favourite journey?
Coming home.
On what occasion do you lie?
When the questions get too difficult.
Which living person do you most despise?
I think he knows.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
I think she knows.
When and where were you happiest?
June 12 1988 in the front room as Ray Houghton’s header lobbed over Peter Shilton and into the English net.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Ray Houghton’s head.
What is your current state of mind?
Fragile.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Answering these questions before breakfast with a fragile mind in a dirty internet cafe in Regensburg.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
A caterpillar.
What is your most treasured possession?
My Stanford acoustic guitar which was stolen from a bar in NYC two months ago.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
See above.
What is your favourite occupation?
Singing.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Compassion.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Compassion.
Who are your favourite writers?
John Steinbeck, Amitav Ghosh, and Leonard Cohen.
What is your motto?
Do your best.
Corkonian Niall plays the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday August 3 at 9pm. On the night he will perform songs from his new album Brother, the Fight is Fixed, regarded as his most mature and complex work to date. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.
Kernan Andrews
