Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.

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

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.

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

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