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.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

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

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.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.