I wanted to write an antiwar song but didn’t want to denigrate the courage of the soldier, … There was too much of that ‘baby killer’ stuff going on.

But in here in this graveyard that is still no man’s land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man’s blind indifference to his fellow man To a whole generation that was butchered...

The Celtic people are a highly emotional bunch, as we all know, God bless them. And my songs are based on pure emotion, most of them.