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 think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.