What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Letting yourself do what you love, without fear and without doubt.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Like most people I have an interest in anything to do with Hitler. No one had a greater impact upon the 20th century...He’d have made an amazing tour manager.
Which living person do you most admire?
Glen Hansard has been like family to me for the past decade.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Impatience.
What is your greatest extravagance?
None. I recently got rid of nearly everything I own to pay for the recording of the album.
What is your favourite journey?
I like every journey!
On what occasion do you lie?
Bedtime! Naptime!
Which living person do you most despise?
None!
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Doing things! I love new adventures. I spent today in Grand Central Market in Downtown LA and ate Mexican Louisiana-catfish soup.
When and where were you happiest?
I spent my 30th birthday mixing the album with Karl Odlum, that was pretty special, but every day has been great since I started this!
Which talent would you most like to have?
Perfect pitch.
What is your current state of mind?
Excited! Glen said some lovely things about me today on his Twitter page and suddenly loads of people around LA have invited me out for adventures!
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Quitting smoking.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
Hopefully me!
What is your most treasured possession?
My guitar. British Airways lost it yesterday, for an hour and a half. I went through all the stages of grief. But it’s only a guitar.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being stuck in it and being unable to see the difference between the misery and one’s self. It’s an awful spiral.
What is your favourite occupation?
Playing music.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Courage.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Courage.
Who are your favourite writers?
John Fante, Charles Bukowski, and AA Gill for his restaurant reviews.
What is your motto?
During the recording of the album it was “Get out of the way of yourself”, so that I/we could work without fear, without doubt. Now it’s “Trust the audience”. They are intelligent. It is not my experience of life that connects them to a song, it is theirs.
Galwegian Seán has just released his self-titled debut album and it is available to buy as a download from iTunes.
Kernan Andrews
