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.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

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

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

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.