I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

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

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!

I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

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