That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town."

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

I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

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

I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.