For quite some time, I lost my way, not only business-wise but personally.
To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold - the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.
I lost confidence, and since then, I can't find my rhythm. I am training phenomenally and will continue trying.
If I've lost anyone's trust, I'm going to work my tail off to get it back.
Business really has to work its way back. It has to re-earn the trust of its broad sets of constituents.
Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space is different. I lost my mojo once. It was like Austin Powers. I don't know why or how, but I had to get it back. And I did.
For me, it's different every year. Some years, it takes me a while to feel comfortable again, to feel like I'm ready to go. Other years, it clicks real fast. Sometimes, it just takes one game or one swing to feel like, 'OK, I'm back.'
'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.
