The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.