The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

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.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

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.

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

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.