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.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

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

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.

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.