the verve, richard ashcroft. "bittersweet symphony." >> rose: what's closest, though, for you?> ooh, gosh. i've heard recently that i've really turned my life upside down because i pull the car in, i just to -- >> rose: and it reverberates in your head. >> the one that really changed my life but it's 20 years old, not recent, was i think massive attack and this incredible album called "blue lines." that blew my mind. i love oasis, too. knoll gallagher, chris martin from cold play is a great songwriter. >> rose: and yours, snow >> damian rice, an irish guy. watch his place. these the great songwriters. >> rose: what is it the irish have? >> it's what they haven't that makes the irish. >> rose: (laughs) that's right. that is the truth. >> you know? our little rock in the north atlantic ocean would be under the waves were it not for very smart innovative people. they had to be smart in ireland. irish people have been through very difficult times recently in this recession. brutal, debt crisis. a problem of the private sector that the public had to bail out and it's -- and yet we'r