There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.