He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now

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.

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.

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

It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.