To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.