I like silence in the morning, it takes me a while to get my head together. I don't do yoga or meditation but it does take me a couple of hours to get warmed up. I'm like a bear coming out of hibernation; once my eyes are open I start hunting for honey. I live some of the time in Dublin and some in the country, Kildare-direction, but I always try to be out of the city on Sunday. I see the city as being for playing and the country for working.

When I'm writing I get much more done in the country, there are less distractions.

I'm trying to be healthy these days, so breakfast is usually some Earl Grey tea and a bowl of porridge. I try to avoid the full Irish unless I've got a hangover, in which case there's no point fighting the body's craving for all the bad stuff. You have to give in. I'm pretty clean-living these days though, so hangovers are a rarity.

My life isn't very routine and neither are my Sundays.

It's rare that any two Sundays would be the same.

I do like to read in the morning though, mainly biographies. I'm reading one of Carl Jung at the moment. I just finished his autobiography and I really enjoyed it, so I thought I'd read a biography to get a more objective view.

I might watch a bit of TV . . . I came across a good religious programme, Heaven and Earth, about different religions. I wish more people would realise that religion is merely geographic, we could all have been born into any religion at all. I like that programmes like that are coming into the mainstream.

I have family around Athy and I usually hook up with them on a Sunday if I'm not away. I wouldn't be much of a cook, I've poisoned a few people in my time, including myself, and I guess I do enough entertaining as it is.

So we'd usually go out somewhere. I like the Killashee Hotel near Naas for Sunday lunch, the food is great and it's a beautiful building.

When you're writing songs then you're really open for business 24/7 and Sundays aren't a day off. I'd be picking up phrases, jotting things down, singing melodies into my phone . . .

the record facility has been a bit of a revelation. If you leave them they just fly away and you never find them again so it's important to nail them down. I've just finished recording a new album, Broken Songs, so I'm starting to write again now.

I'd always find time to play guitar on a Sunday. In fact, I like to take Monday off more than Sunday. There's something really nice about everyone else going to work when you're still lying in bed.