I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture 'cause you’re too busy recording it; so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off