If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.